My wife also quickly went back to film. She has been using Olympus compacts for some years now, so when the opportunity arose to buy a refurbished Mju 300 cheaply, I bought her one.

Her main problem was with shutter lag - she was so used to pressing the shutter button on her Mju film compact and taking the shot, that the shutter lag on the Mju 300 meant that she ended up with blurred photos! Suffice to say that the Mju 300 got resold on eBay for what I paid for it, and she is now happily using her Mju film compact again.

Digital is not for everyone - it is just a shame that happy snappers will not have the opportunity in the future to buy a new film camera (other than perhaps a throw-away)and may forsake photography altogether. Have the manufacturers dropped 35mm compacts too soon?