Having read Eric's article, some of what he calls the advantages of film seems to apply more to him than others.
"Film gives you a consistent style" - no,
you give
yourself a consistent style. One of my favourite flickr photographers is Nicolas Bouvier, aka Sparth. He has used the Leica M9, the Leica X Vario, the Ricoh GR, the 5D Mark II, the Panasonic GH4, and now he uses some little Nikon pocket zoom. And the photos all look very similar. Sparth does not rely on the camera to give him a distinctive style, he has the style and makes the camera do what he wants.
sparth
Eric says that most people upgrade their digital cameras every two years, and he couldn't imagine having a digital camera for more than five. While I have lots of cameras and lenses, I've had my Leica M9 for five years and I still use it. In a sense, it is the camera I have come to associate with my style, and I plan to shoot with the M9 as long as it holds up. I'm planning for at least another five years, maybe more.
"Shooting film helps me relive an experience more vividly" - he goes on to say that if he shoots digital, he looks at them the next day, pulls out a few he likes, and never looks at the rest again. That might work for him, but not for me. I have all my photographs arranged in folders, organized by time and place. I can go to any month of any year of the past twelve years and there is a very good chance that I will have photographs of what I did on almost any given day, especially if I was somewhere outside the house. I can look through dozens of photos I am likely to have taken and note exactly where I was, what I did, and whom I was with.
"Film has greater longevity" - with digital advances like cloud storage and multiple backup options, I believe that this is becoming less and less applicable. Prints fade and colour negatives degrade over time. A digital file remains the same no matter how many times it is copied. The only thing limiting digital longevity is migration of files to more recent storage media. Get that under control and you'll be able to keep your entire life's work in increasingly large capacity physical media which are compatible with the latest technology, as well as likely to be readable in the future.
I do agree with his liking of the Contax T3; I've had one for several years and it is the film camera I carry when I'm not on an intensive shooting excursion.
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