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been shooting film since about 1960.
had a full darkroom, with processing for c41 and e6.
sold gallery type 16x20 fine art prints for years.
and sold all my LF, MF, and 35mm film gear some years ago.
true, film is not "dead". but high end digital (even consumer digital now) is faster, cheaper, and higher quality than chemical based photography. it just plain looks better IMO.
now with certain archival pigments fine art printers can produce something that your great great grandchildren can actually look at, and it will look the same 100+ years from now.
a digital file does not degrade through reproduction, unlike photographing a photograph.
within 10-15 years the only guys using film based photography will be fine art geeks who are trying to preserve the "art" of darkroom work, the problem is their prints won't sell as well as archival prints made with pigment inks.
not trying to win an argument here, just my 2 cents.
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