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Originally Posted by Wilt
3.* In published comparison tests, they always seem to take a 1st generation 35mm digital image, and compare it to a second generation MF digital image...it was SCANNED to be turned into a digital file for comparison.* That is hardly an apples-to-apples test!* What if the scanner is the limiting factor, and it does not scan everything that is in the original film 
So while the pixel count of current dSLR might be on par with a scanned MF image, the tests do nothing to address the relative gradation of tonality seen in larger media (item 2 above).*
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As a commercial photographer, I find that clients that "want film b/c it looks better" :
(they have the option of LF digital, 35mm digital and MF film mind you) scan their MF negatives anyway... this day and age anyway.