I just won't live long enough to read through a typical E-gadget owner's manual. Somewhere around p.403 you finally find out which combination of buttons to push which allows you to turn off five dozen on-board apps you neither want nor will ever use, just so you can take an actual picture. My younger wife ridiculed me and blamed my age for not being good with those things. Then when she was handed a digital camera for sake of Operating Room documentation, after a few days she gave up trying to figure it out and asked me to set it up for her. After two weeks of wading through the manual, I locked the whole thing in so it could only take one type of pictures, and told her not to touch any other commands. That worked. No possibility of a giraffe or comet getting digitally spliced into the middle of the image, or of all the details becoming psychedelic bubble colors.
I surprised that digital capture is valid at all if the before/during/after pictures become "evidence" in a medical lawsuit - which does happen. They're just too easy to digitally manipulate these days. I walked out on a Dentist that was trying to talk me into a very expensive procedure, showing me a "digital X-Ray" that was conspicuously tweaked. I already overhead him recommending the same thing to other patients in nearby rooms first.
As far as a "Virtual Darkroom" goes, Chuck, I'm sure someone could come up a 3d headset to provide a simulated version of actual darkroom experience: tripping over power cords, accidentally spilling acid on your feet, loading a film holder with the film backwards, getting paper fogged due to a defective safelight, dropping an expensive lens in the dark, even having the cat sneak in and getting its hair all through your enlarger. It would be more fun than virtual golf.
