Dirt on a sensor is only a minor inconvienience and childs plays to remove, so why limit your creativity by restricking yourself to a bridge camera.

As for film, dirt was always a major problem especially in the darkroom.

Harry 

Thanks for the response Harry,

As Hancock said it may be a minor inconvienience to but it's life or death to some poor soul, And as my bathroom was my dark room in days of yore dirt was not a problem, gaffer tapeing the blackout light leaks was however a very different story.

Keith

For many years the bathroom doubled up as a darkroom for me also. A large board placed across the bath to carry the enlarger, but if you did your own printing, you have also done a lot of spotting to cover up the matks left by dust.

Mind you, you may not be as old as me. In the later years canned compressed air was available so that you could keep the dust of the paper during exposure.

I used to love my darkroom, but would never go back to film.

Harry 

The bathroom was quite dust free as i recall and the amount of spotting was minimal, i recall that it had an extractor which may have helped to keep the dust down. Canned compressed air was a luxury i only discovered in recent years. I agree that i would also not go back to the darkened bathroom either but i still use film for b/w in the SLR's, usually ILFORD. maybe 2 or 3 rolls a year. I still like film but i have to admit that digital is extremely liberating and a lot less stressful on the eyes and on the kids who kept on wanting to use the darkroom.

Keith