The main difference between film and digital is the process of actually creating or recoding an image and the cameras we might use to do this. Analog processes generally use a physical slice of light sensitive material (film) that records an image as light hits it (kind of like a small print that gets 'saved' in the camera and then revealed when we develop the film in funky smelling chemicals). This physical process means that we only get a certain number of images on a roll of film as it all needs to all physically fit inside the camera! For 35mm this is usually 24 or 36 images and for medium format it's usually 10,12 or 16 images. Once we get into the large format arena we are down to 2 images! One on each side of a dedicated film holder like this one.

On the other hand, digital cameras record your image using a sensor and we get files that we open on a computer. Pretty simple really!

In terms of what this means for you as the receiver of images, nothing really changes! The only real difference is aesthetics, film has a different look and feel to digital which is why we like it! So in the end, choosing to use film generally comes down to how you want your pictures to look, there are things digital still can't quite achieve in the same way film can, which I guess is why it's stuck around!