Pretty good article on the seemingly old film vs digital discussion

[Kirk Gittings]

Because -

1) Film has qualities that you don't get with digital (obviously)
2) Post processing with digital has many advantages
3) printing very big with an enlarger is very difficult - a job for the experts. Printing very big with an inkjet is a doddle.

In this case it means that I get the qualities I love from film which I can't get from digital and I don't need to operate a darkroom. However, I have also started playing with making OHP films for contact printing. The process of scanning and processing in Photoshop to prepare an OHP for alt processes removes a lot of the 'problems' and gets your most of the way towards the classical look that comes from using film and finishing photo chemically.

Finally though - the answer is 'why not'! If it means lots more people use film even if they don't have the time, space, etc for a darkroom then it benefits those that do!

Tim

Absolutely

[johnmsanderson]

using large format film and printing digital is the best of both worlds.

that said, getting high quality scans of LF negatives can be pricy. scanning isn't so much fun either.