I'm a photographer who started in 35 mm during high school. I spent a year on the yearbook and took mostly sports photos using a medium format camera. When i was a senior my parents helped me buy my first camera, a Canon AE-1 program. I still had it up to about a year ago when I finally sold it for not very much money.
I bought a Sony Maptiva which stored the images on a floppy disk. It worked ok but the quality was not very good at all. Then we got a Canon Powershot and right before I had my daughter we got a Canon Cybershot which took pretty good pictures.
A couple years a go I finally got a Nikon d-60 I love it.
I prefer digital over film because it is less expensive and I can see my pictures right away so I can take more shots if I need to
I use to develop my own film black and white and I bought bulk film which saved some money.
I mostly do nature, wildlife, landscapes and my daughter