Do we need Film?
Personally, I think that film will never go away, nor should it. there is just something about the process that slows me down..... makes me think, perhaps it is a meditation.
Film can be forgiving in the highlights where a digital sensor is not at all.
The bottom line is that it is just a different medium, or a different tool for the artist to select....some embrace it and a others do not, to each their own.
It is what it is.
As to film/digital, it's easy for me: Before digital, when my wife directed a play, I'd shoot either 48 or 72 exposures during the show (320T for you other oldsters.) It isn't easy to get good photos during a live production, and I'd be happy to get a dozen or more decent shots, and a small handful of good shots for her portfolio.
Digital changed that; I could shoot 300 frames during one production and have dozens of excellent shots, because there were so many more shots to choose from. It was great, as far as getting good photos went. (I don't get many calls lately, mostly because people's cellphones get pretty good photos these days.)
But when I'm shooting for my own enjoyment, I use a camera that doesn't take batteries at all, and I shoot maybe three frames of 120 for a specific image. Two entirely different approaches to photography for two different purposes.
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