Speaking as someone who has moved from traditional darkroom processing to digital image manipulation in Photoshop, I know which I prefer! Messing about in the dark with poisonous chemicals
does give you a sense of achievement when you finally produce a good image, but most of the image manipulations I used to do in the darkroom (dodging, burning, toning, solarization etc.) were get-it-right-first-time-or-forget-it processes. Now, I can do exactly the same stuff (and more!) in Photoshop, and if I screw it up the first time I just hit the History palette and start again. As far as I'm concerned, there's no contest - but that IS only my opinion!
