Film SLR or Digital Camera?

Hi Everyone:

I have had a wonderful time over the last 2 years exploring the wonders
of our fascianting and vast universe. I started of with bino, then
graduated to a small 6" scope, and offlate have tried my hands on the
8-10" scopes. Taking advice from a lot of online articles, and inspired
by the work of some ingenious amateur astronomers, I decided to dirty
my hands with some astrophotog.

In the last couple of years, the consumer electronics market has
witnessed a plethora of affordable digital cameras (even some of the
with CCDs), which some amateur astrophotographers have put use to take
some amazing pictures. Further, I have noticed in many articles that
cheap webcams can also be used to get some handy work done.

Now coming over to my question, I was wondering if some experienced
people out there can tell me what the best strategy should be. Should I
explore film based camera first and then move on to the digital
counterparts. I am aware that there are troubles on both sides. For
example, some digital cams donot provide infinite shutter times,
rendering them useless for deep space astrophotog and film based
astrophotog might be expensive and time consuming!

If anyone of you, who is experienced enough with both aspects of
astrophotog, kindly share your thoughts on the pros and cons of each
method.

Would appreciate a detailed and justifying response.
Thanks in advance
Sampath

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