Different art, Nigel, but I used to have a darkroom where I spent many a lonely hour developing films and producing prints. That all changed when they made a digital camera worth using (some of the early ones were awful) and it was game over for "analogue" photography IMO.

Digital vs. analogue photography argument is still raging in some quarters but with my Canon EOS1000D and Epson Stylus Pro printer I can produce great prints in minutes rather than hours in a non-chemical-laden atmosphere. Mind you, I still fill sketchbooks with notes and doodles!

Score away: the tools you use are secondary to the finished product, which I'm sure will be well worth listening to.