I want longevity of the image.
Storage that is more or less permanent without having to resave and back-up over and over.
I was scanning some B&W film from the late 1800's this weekend and was marveling how well it has survived in a shoe box with no special effort to preserve it. Scanning was to share these rare photos with family of pre revolution Mexico and revolution Mexico and the Southwest (Family and historical figures that were around the family).
I love digital but am concerned about legacy.

As you may know, for the last couple of weeks I have been taking my Nikon D 750 everywhere and using it to take photos of anything and everything. Last night I had to make an airport run. The airport is at a considerable distance, and though there is little traffic out here, it was starting to rain. I was past the self imposed --"Must use the new camera" period, but the D 750 was sitting next to me on the desk top, so I grabbed it to bring along. Night+rain+airport, might add up to something interesting.
As I got to the bottom of my driveway it was full dark with some interesting clouds to the south. I stopped, waited for the helpful "delayed headlights" to go off and took the first picture using the night vision effect. Kind of moody, noisy, (almost looks like grain) reminds me of some shots in the old days push processing Tri X with Dektol for max grain. In no way a brilliant shot, but satisfying. The trip to the city was uneventful. Once in town there was a bit of traffic, but I was able to take a few night/rain shots along the way. I thought of pulling into the observation area to take a shot or two of planes landing, realized that the next plane in would be the one I was meeting! Went to the terminal and parked --- still raining, with the camera under my vest, ran, as much as I do nowadays, up under the roofed area around the terminal. I quickly snapped a few shots at angles to the terminal face and went inside. One is the second picture attached. Everything else was uneventful, plane was on time, my wife had a good flight, the luggage was fast and came undamaged -- well maybe not uneventful -- current air travel standards, darn good. Made the trek home, and is my habit, before I went to bed I downloaded the new pictures into the computer. As I reviewed them, I came to a realization.
Now don't get me wrong, I really do like the capabilities digital offers. I love being able to see the results immediately, and never running out of "film". The list of benefits is long and obvious.
Here is the thing -- and I do realize the digitals can do things film could never do,(not to mention PP) I want my digital pictures to be indistinguishable from the best results of my old film cameras. Probably one reason I am so fond of the DF, and even why I still shoot some film with the Leica and various Nikon F models. As I continue to work with the cameras, I am convinced I can come very close.

What about you? What do you want from your digital camera?

I see significant variations in digital rendition -- of course the intermediaries of monitor and printer are in the way of knowing the "truth", per recently posted article. I have been going through Kodachromes, Agfachromes, Ektachromes recently. They have been stored well, and except for some from the earliest years after WWII, look very good. I have gotten some good color with the digital cameras. With the Nikon DF, I shoot Vivid, fractionally underexposed, with white balance set to conditions. I have gotten some color images that on my monitor look pretty good to me. "Me" and "my" underscored. With the recently acquired used D 750, I have been tweaking the U-1 setting for just that purpose,best color rendition I can get and feel I am making progress.
I will be copying some vivid old slides by several "primitive" methods and posting them with the method used. No way to share the original so each will have to judge how acceptable they are vs. their own slides subjectively.
No more Kodachrome. Rockwell swears by Fuji -- I haven't used it.
Many on this site are much more knowledgeable than I, and lots of advice is available.

At the end of it all is weather the color you achieve with your camera, see and print on your equipment satisfies you (unless it is a Paid job).

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What I want now is more than I wanted when I got my first digital (1999). I just didn't realize I needed it. The instant feedback of a digital provides instant feedback on the quality of my composition and lighting without waiting for film processing. I can experiment more and hopefully learn more. Post processing is a plus, but I'd like to use it to enhance an already well composed photo. The other side of the coin is the steep learning curve required by the camera's menus to use the camera's capability. Ditto post processing.