If the camera you bought five years ago is crap, then you bought a crap camera five years ago. I just bought a five year old camera, the Nikon D800, because 36 megapixel full-frame (for my purposes, good photos in low-light conditions) cameras still aren’t cheap. The Nikon D3300 and Nikon D5300 were Nikon’s entry line DSLR in 2014, and they’re not very different from the D3500 and D5600 that are the current models. Proprietary batteries suck, but in these cases the same model of battery used in the current models. These cameras use normal SD cards (plus Compact Flash in the D800’s case) so that’s not a problem.
DxoMark measures the perceptual megapixels of lenses; from their measurements, the Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D gets 22 P-MPix. That’s pretty good, but still means that Nikon’s entire new line up of cameras, when using that lines, are limited by the lens, not the resolution of the camera. No film in the world could do better than a normal DSLR with most lenses.
People appreciate the style of film in a retro way, but let’s not miss the fact that now and five years ago, digital cameras were producing excellent quality pictures, and anywhere that film might still be better is going to be far beyond the noticing of most people, or even the production of most photographers.
