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Photography, like television, telephones and seemingly everything else in the world, is going digital. Digital photography, in which images are captured and stored in bits and bytes and displayed on a computer terminal or TV screen, is already taking a firm hold of professional photography.

Industry watchers agree that it is only a matter of time before digital photo editing goes mainstream and film-based photography fades from the scene like an old daguerreotype.

Few dare guess how long the transition may take, but Kodak spokesman Paul Allen reckons there’s at least a decade or two of life left for the familiar yellow boxes of film sold by the company, which is based in Rochester, N.Y. Even after digital goes mainstream, he says, some photographers will continue using film.