When people say they "prefer the look of film", they might be taking about two things: image capture and image display.
Digital sensors have surpassed the capability of film by almost every measure. There's now essentially nothing you can capture on film that you can't obtain digitally. The difference is the process. And different artists legitimately have different preferences.
But display is much less clear. Computer displays, paper prints, and film projection have different capabilities.
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