Trevor Sowers

Subjective Sucks to be you Ummmm it's purpose is whatever the user intends it to be. I'm sorry you are sooooo restricted by self imposed rules that the rest of us are free from

It looks nothing like the blur of a large aperture lens. To most of course they want to eliminate noise it's ugly.  Grain is pleasing and that is why the same software that eliminates noise also ...

And noise in digital is ugly and I only see the grain in film which is pleasing.  Of course it is subjective

Apparently you didn't figure it out then.  Film looks outstanding.  Once again it is subjective so you are entitled to your opinion and yes it is an art.  Art is a form of expression and if you ...

Now you are just playing semantics

Non of that matters.  It's the final result and the way it impacts the viewer that matters.  Don't get lost in engineering since it's an art

You also don't see bokeh with your eyes but everyone loves that.  Photography is about visual stimulation.  Many people like grain.

Subjective.

Or a Positive on the light table which for me is the pinnacle of photography

First off noise and grain are not the same nor do they look the same.  Secondly that is subjective.

Film doesn't have noise.  I'll take the MF film over your APSc any day.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/standards/will-todays-digital-movies-exist-in-100-years

Yes fair enough.. It is still much more likely I can retrieve photos from a box of slides or negatives than a hard drive. Here is some info on what I was referring to with move archive. https://spe ...

Yes but you are talking about digital storage and a photo album is not that.

Food for thought. https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsolescence

Well the ones worth archiving.........

Well that is a statement to the content and quality  of the photos not to the inherent value of a photograph beyond it's creator.

Short answer.......yes film will last longer.

In case of death of owner film fares much better.  Good luck figuring out grandmas password to her computer but her photo album can be unlocked by a 3 year old.

That is not true actually  Hollywood converts all their movies to film for archiving.