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Could say the same thing about painting. Why use brushes and paint and canvas. Why not simply use digital tools to simulate paint, with the infinite flexibility that computers provide?
Because the medium, including its limitations, is a part of the art.
Similar reason for riding a bicycle instead of a motorcycle, playing a piano and not a synthesizer, etc.
Of course, film is dead from a commercial standpoint. Advertising, news, fashion, sports, snapshots, every functional use of photography is 100% digital. But painting died centuries ago from a commercial standpoint, and it remains an art form. I think something similar will happen with film.
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