The last quote is the most telling of all: how film + the photogs unique appraoch to their camera & subject + what happens in the darkroom really makes a photograph differentiate a client from their competitors.
My day job is as an Art Director and a product photog using a Hassy w/a leaf system has been the only digital I've used - it was good in this type of project (the shots stood out from other digital shots and the photog was a film person coming to digital only because of client turn around demands).
Everything else I have have shot for clients is film. [edit: one client I had didn't want to pay much so we did use a photog who was using a high end canon digital - what was saved in photog fees cost as much or more in retouching, color correcting, etc...]
It's no wonder why, here in the US at least, some companies have gone with photogs using Holgas and Dianas in shoots - differentiation! One of the biggest Design rags, Communication Arts, had a blurb about the LC-A in one of their Photography annuals.
