OK I think I need to explain better what I meant with the phrase 'as digital image capture becomes all the more sophisticated it will help delineate the niche that film has and thus bring more people back to this wonderful alternative way of taking pictures.'
Often when one technology is superseded by another, the 'obsolete' technology still lives on as an alternative, recreational way of doing this. The most well-known example is for personal and small-scale commercial land transportation, where for centuries the norm was horse-drawn transport. Eventually the motor car was invented, and there was a brief period where they were in competition, motor cars being too slow, too expensive, too unreliable. As we know they improved and became the norm - once this happened, horses were used no longer for transport but for recreation. As cars became faster, bigger, more powerful than horses the niche of horse transport was delineated and people used them solely for that reason.
Perhaps a better example is sail vs. steam for shipping - sailboats, despite being inferior to steam and now of course internal combustion is still widely used, but sailing boats and ships remain popular.
With film and digital we're in that transitional stage (as when sail clippers competed with steamships over long-haul trade routes) where the newer medium does not have a decisive advantage over the other (large format film being still almost unbeatable in terms of resolution by digital means) but with time digital will reign supreme. In the meantime as digital gets better people will return to film in order to appreciate the difference.
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