wrote:
Hello,

I heard, that today there is no need anymore for traditional films
(negative or diapositve) because by postprocessing digital camera
shots(e.g. with Photoshop) everything can be done/achieved?


Is that true and is it really that simple?


For the purposes to which 90%+ of the silver based film has been
traditionally used, yes.

There will continue to be niche purposes for which film is the way to
go, but the niche grows smaller every day. There are artists making
Daguerreotype images to this day as well as tintypes, colloidion prints,
pinhole camera photos and the like. The world is full of obsolete
photographic equipment and processes. A few people find magic in these
and continue to create very special images with them, but the vast
majority of users both serious and casual moved on.

Stephen Johnson and others have been doing amazing large scale work
using digital scanning backs on larger format cameras. Thus even the
traditional domain of the 120/220 roll film cameras and even larger view
cameras has been largely taken over by large digital capture backs for
professional purposes.

We are witnesses to the end of one era and the start of another.

John