Fuji Velvia 100F

Kodak Plus-X 125

Canon 5DMk.II

I think this desert scene is a good test/comparison of the film and the digital look. It's hard everything to tell from the images this size, but it's clear to me that the film offers a better "look" straight off the bat. The colors are more lush and true to life, while the black and white has the epic grain structure and timeless look that I have never seen replicated digitally. The Canon file has one advantage over the others however; it simply resolves more detail. You can "zoom in" much further into the digital file then you can into the film, and it is simply a sharper image. There is lots of information on the film, but there are fewer ways to get that information into the digital realm (or printed or viewed even) then there were even 5 years ago. Scanning and developing is expensive and slow, and a digital file can be published online before a film photograph has even finished winding back into it's canister. Digital will replace film (in cinema as well), that's inevitable. I just hope that the next generation of sensors pushes the look of digital images further towards that of film.