A box with a lens with film in the back or a sensor in the back is just a tool in the end. Neither guarantees the ability to take strong images, so to me is not about real or fake, it's only about the image.
And I come from the era of working with film and going through the transition to digital in a working environment.
Do I miss working with film? Not really, but it had its own specific parameters, but again, it was what it was. Spent half my life in darkrooms, b+w , so can be nostalgic about the process. The skills I developed as a professional printer and photographer are still in my head, but do I miss the hours and hours of dodging, burning, changing contrast filters, manipulating the paper in trays of chemicals, washing, drying...,.? A little bit for "the process" and decades of getting really good at it, but not really.
And anyway, we just learned a whole new set of skills with digital and got good with that.
Just a tool though. A mediocre photo is still a mediocre photo.
great!
) I spent approx 20 years in the darkroom. nothing beats a well made black and white barita (for example Agfa MCC111) print!
here some "real" stuff if you feel like
https://www.stefan-rohner.net/portfo...trait/001.html
all Kodak Trix 400 printed on Agfa MCC 111