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To be fair, my Mitutoyo digital calipers' battery shows no sign of running out (the expected lifetime of the supplied battery with a genuine Mitutoyo digital caliper is supposed to be about five years; the power usage on genuine Mitutoyo kit has shown to be very efficient), so the most regularly reported downside you hear about with digital calipers, namely of them always running out of battery and being dead when you go to use them, isn't really a problem for me.Why not just go digital? What is the advantage of a dial caliper? (other than needing a battery one a year)
That said, I just like dial calipers. I reckon there's a fair old chunk of our preferences, as hobby machinists, that comes from not entirely rational sentiment. Dials on calipers are one of mine.
(also less importantly, as efficiently as the Mitutoyo stuff is with batteries, they won't last forever and sooner or later, I will pick up the calipers and the battery will be dead, and I will have to remember where I put the batteries and then hope I have remembered to ensure I actually have one )