35mm vs Digital

Before you read the following Blog and believe I am living in the stone age know I do have a digital camera a Nikon D 40x which I have thoroughly enjoyed since receiving it for my birthday and Christmas present ( it sometimes pays to have a Decemeber Birthday). I love being able to take a ton of pictures send them to family and friends who live far away and then erasing them...but now as I get ready for my upcoming wedding season, I know my trusty 35mm camera's will be in their bag and ready to snap away...while my digital stays home. I do my weddings as a creative outlet it is not something I do because I have to it is something I do because I love it. The pictures I have taken are what I saw and was able to capture not recreate at home on my computer. I love that part of the challenge...and as I look at the pictures in my parents home, pictures from film cameras that have survived three or four generations I can' t help but wonder will the images that I capture of the bride and groom be in the homes of their great great grandchildren and if I had given them a disk of photoshopped images would they have survived in the same way or will they be in the a box of things like 8 tracks, beta tapes and the such. So here is m argument 35mm vs Digital

Digital versus 35 mm
Work done on a digital camera today could be unreadable by equipment in 50 years, think of the photographs of our ancestors which have survived 100 years a proven fact not a calculated probability.
Storage is another thing to think about, digital photos need a computer while prints need nothing for viewing.
Exposures of more than 30 seconds is not yet possible with the digital cameras.
Batteries.....need I say more?
The quality of the print is dependant on the size of the file saved.
Cost vs Quality Is the quality of the papers and the inks used to the standards that my lab offers in their developing? Doubt it.
Sometimes detail is more important than speed.
Colour control is still an issue what you see on the screen is not necessarily what you get.
Digital zoom vs optical zoom....digital you can go bigger but the image becomes more pixelly.
The magic is in what I have captured not what I have manipulated it to become something which never actually exist.
Using digital I feel I have lost my edge...I just keep snapping, I can just erase what I don't like I don't have to wait for that moment in the same manner.
Company's say memory cards can hold information for up to 100 years the same with certain printer paper...with technology as new as it is ...How do they really know?
In my opinion film and digital each have their strengths and weaknesses. Film does some things best while digital does other things best. Many people have both film and digital cameras, as do I. The bottom line is still the image. The rest is just tool selection. My Canon A I have been using for the last 20 years, it has survived the dry West African winter the wet humidity of Belize, the dry cold of Sweden and Norway. It still works in a pinch. I have not had to send it in for major work. I can take low light pictures, play with infra red film and work the light on my own terms. It's up to the photographer to choose the most appropriate tool for the application at hand. For me that is 35 mm. I have not met a bride yet who would rather be handed a disc with all her pictures and not an album. Film is dead? No, I don't think so. Personally I'll keep using it until I've reached the last frame on the last roll.