Probably true, but kinda doesn't make sense without prints. At least, not to me. Everyone has their "thing", I guess.
I get prints from the digitized image from film....that way I can clean it up and fix it like you might have in the darkroom days....
I pretty much only shoot film, however, in aspect ratios I just can't shoot with digital....like my 6x17 medium format view camera....one click panos, no stitching....
I also play with 6x6 (Hassy), 6x9 (fuji), 6x12 (Ondu pinhole)...and recently I dipped my toe into 35mm....but with a Russian HorizonT swing lens pano camera.
At some point, I plan to jump into 4x5 large format photography....again, something that is beyond most digital today....
Right now, I take my film to a place not far for developing, but I bring the negatives home. I've been using Silverfast with an Epson flatbed scanner, but I"m building a rig with mostly Negative Supply gear to fix up a decently high end film negative scanner, using my GFX100 as the scanning camera.
I'm thinking on very special images that I want high resolution for printing....I might scan using pixel shift and see what a 400MP image would do for me...I'm guessing that might come close to drum scanner level?
I dunno....its all just fun....
And I've really been finding that not only are legacy lenses fun on digital, combined with actual film stock, seem to give a "feel" and I dunno...texture maybe that digital just doesn't.
Don't get me wrong, I loves me some digital...but I figure the film stuff is just another arrow in my quiver of tools for creating.
It certainly (to me) has its place.
I do plan next to get some Patterson tanks and spools and try my hand at developing my own stuff. My place does it for about $7/roll....but of late, their processes seem to give less than great results...I'm thinking maybe they haven't serviced or cleaned their equipment in awhile?
Anyway....