My wife Sandra ( shoots for
www.sfdj.com) shot film for the last 23 years with a Nikonos and once they came out, the Nikon RS....she loved the saturation of the film pictures( slides) but the annoyance was the issues involved in getting an ideal scan...We had bought the best scanner we could find back in the 90's..the Minolta Dimage with 5400 dpi resolution..but this was essentially shooting the picture "all over again", and color shift, lighting issues, and significant photoshop time with each slide left this annoying for use in web articles and for printing on Epson 4880 or above.
When Sandra went digital 2 years ago, with a Canon 5D Mark II and Sea & Sea Housing w/ Inon strobes, the learning curve was not "terrible", but she was forced to learn a great deal more about how to use programs like Adobe LightRoom, as this becomes part of the inception of each shot. Many of the film photographers also hated the idea of any work on a computer being done at all on a slide, this Not being photography to them, but rather, artificial manipulation of images--and they did not respect this.....
There is almost no way you can prefer the film, if you spend a few months shooting digital, and get some serious instruction in how to develop the digital images with Lightroom.
Sandra almost never wants to pull out the old Nikon RS she loved so much before.....and really likes being able to shoot 555 shots compared to 36 shots
We do have a few 120 meg slide scans from shots taken by the RS, where the saturation is spectacular, and the image can be blown up to 12 feet high by 8 feet wide, and is still sharp.....kind of hard to equal with a 21 megapixel camera