Interesting that he refers to his digital camera as soulless. I've always thought of so much of the digital work I see as just thoughtless: meaning, people just go click, click, click without much thinking or feeling or composing because they figure they'll just run it through Photoshop later. The result though, even if they can fix technical problems in Photoshop, are images that just don't sing.
Then there's also the issue of simplicity that so many film cameras have, that digital just can't match. I often think that gadgetyness (new word) is a way of allowing photographers to keep from facing the frame, and what they put into it.
Of course, regardless of which medium you use, you have to bring yourself to it. But I think that the thought processes (the zen pauses) required to use film is a big part of what allows the photographer to translate the pictures they are feeling into something the viewer can see and feel as well (even if the viewer is just the photographer who made the image).
I've been using my Nikon FM for 30 years. I have other cameras as well, but I always return to my FM. I know it and it knows me. The pictures it has helped me create bought me my home, and I'd never give it up no matter what technology throws at me. It's like a Chanel suit: It never goes out of style.
