[KenWittlief]

Film vs Digital? the answer is simple: how many people on this forum still use an 8mm movie camera (which is all we had when I was a teenager) and how many used camcorders?

Digital wins in all aspects: Hands down. A 35mm photo on 100 ASA film as an approx pixel level of 10M pixels. Switch to ASA 400 or 800 to shoot indoors and you are down below 5M pixels (easily).

Film is still used professional, and it has some unique characteristics that are hard to duplicate on a digital camera. For example, I have done a lot of night photography, where you set your camera on a tripod and hold the lens open (shutter on B) for several minutes. All the digital cameras I have gotten my hands on so far will only hold the lens open for several seconds at the most.

The real difference is cost of operation. Practice overcomes almost everything else, and you can shoot a digital camera all day, and it cost you $0 to see the results on your monitor screen. For example, if there is a thunderstorm coming through at night you can set your digital camera on a tripod and hold the lens open for its max exposure (several seconds) and do this over and over to catch lightning bolts. The frames where nothing is captured you delete. If you did this with film you could spend $100 on film and developing just to catch one bolt of lightning!