As I suspect, there will be a place for film for many years to come for a variety of reasons, although it will remain a niche market compared to the dominance now of digital.<\/p>\n
A report from interviews at Photokina 2008<\/a> appears to confirm that use of film is starting to rise again for creative artistic purposes and for professionals needing greater resolution.<\/p>\n They assert that the greatest system resolution physically possible from the new 21mp full frame 35mm dSLR cameras when used with the best prime lenses is ~80lp\/mm compared to 160lp\/mm with 120 film using new high resolution films such as Rollei ATP combined with hiqh quality optics such as Zeiss Makro Planar ZF 2\/50 mounted on a tripod which supposedly give 200mp image quality.<\/p>\n Ken Rockwell’s blogs also support the superiority of 120 film over digital capture for large prints.<\/p>\n See post-script on his comparisons of the Nikon D3, D700 and Canon 5D MI<\/a> which by they way shows the 5D images seems better than the D3 but not as good as 120 film.<\/p>\n