Funny stuff Bill.I was about to raise my hand and call BS on this. We have all read the tests online that show clearly and definitively that digital is better than film. A contributor to the Luminous Landscape forum proudly proclaimed that he believes the Nikon D3x is easily the equivalent of 6x9 film. Heck, even way back in the day I sold 20x30 inch prints from a 10D that clients proudly displayed in their lobbies and paid well for them. Film is dead folks, deal with it.
But here's the thing. I have been mostly digital since about 2003, only shooting film for special projects, when I want that look, or when a digital body went down and I needed a backup. But, without exception, every picture gracing the walls in my home and in my office were shot on film -- all kinds of film, all formats of film. Not once before reading this thread did that cross my mind.
My digital processing skills were in demand because I could make digital look more like film than they thought possible and I sold all my Canon gear for Leica because I thought the DMR images looked more like film.
I've been saving my pennies to get a MFDB system, but really wanting to go buy Woody's Mamiya 7, another Fuji 6x9 or maybe a 4x5.
As far as a chemical print vs. a digital print, I strongly prefer digital so I can work the image the way I see fit, but several of the images in my house are chemical prints and despite my best efforts I could never duplicate the look. And even though I spent a small fortune (for me) on an HP printer and rolls of paper, it can't touch the tonality from a Lightjet 430 -- especially since the local lab (PhotoCraft) will run my files straight and I get exactly what I want.
I need therapy.
I have a similar thing going on in my home ... one framed digital print ... from the DMR no less, LOL! All the rest are from film, and 95% of those are silver prints.
One of my favorites is a diptych of an old Merry-go-round at rest and blurred in motion that I shot with a Mamiya 7II and 43mm which I've yet to visibly match with any digital capture image. A majority of prints on my walls are collector's silver prints I bought back in the "Fat '80s" before MF Digital and Wall Street stripped me of most my disposable income :ROTFL:
Nothing like a reminder of what it "should" look like every time I walk up to my studio