Film: Hello or Goodbye?

[Loupey]

For many years I've been wanting to get some of my early work (medium format) scanned. But waiting for medium format film scanner prices to come down and not wanting to send my originals out to be drum scanned and whatever other excuses kept me from digitizing my work.

I finally got my hands on an Epson Perfection 4490 flatbed scanner recently and the film scanner feature worked quite well (better than I expected actually). Not wanting to rescan and reprocess these images in the near future, I scanned my images at 4800x4800 dpi. The resulting 48-bit images were over 400 MB each! Needless to say, cleaning up these images has not been very fun - and before I thought the occasional dust speck on the sensor was "inconvenient"

I was contemplating going back to shooting film (I kept all my MF and some 35mm pieces). But this whole process got me second-guessing myself. The ease of digital, the wide latitude of digital, and the sharpness of digital imaging sensors make it tough to "go back". So I thought I'd post a poll (hope it works, never done one of those before). Also, if you have some additional thoughts, comments, or sample images of when you used film, please feel free to post them here.

This shot was taken with my Bronica ETRS (6x4.5) probably with my 50mm and warming filter (can't recall exactly now). The stranger was incidental and I actually remember being a little upset that he was there at the time - worked out well now. Fuji Velvia film.