Interesting thgread, thanks for starting it.
For many years the Leica X1 was m only digitl camera and with its 36mm equivalent lens and and OVF without chimping the way I used it was similar to shoot film, even more when I forced myself not to change iso within a sessio, minimum 36 frames. But still different.
Now I use the M10 without much chimlping (I do sometimes!), with no overshooting, I dare to say in the way I did when shooting film.
But the experience, the feeling is still different. What for me makes shooting film a nice experience is what happens after: the need to process the film with an "unknown" result. The emotion when you first look at the film (if B&W just developed) or the prints from the lab if colours.
Another important factor is to know that with film in most of cases you have a limited number of frames to cover your subject. Of course you can bring so many films with you to feel more free, but I don't!
If I can add one personal experience a few years ago I went with my wife for a two weeks holiday on an island (Ischia) in south Italy where we had never been before. It was not intended to be a photographic journey and I decided to bring with me only my Polaroid and 8 pack of films which means a total (8x8) of 64 exposures available foe 14 days. I found it very liberating, sometimes thinking in advance what I to shoot in the day if landscape or people, or any other subject in order to be sure when back home to have all what interesting (to me) covered. And even if with the not in that time perfect film I was never sure of success each time I pressed the shutter at the end I brought back a decent selection of pictures which later I transformed in a minibook, but this is a different story.
My conclusion: simply it is nice to have choices, I like to use film and I like to use digital. And yes, sometimes I like to recreat the film experience with digital using only OVF, not chimping, no changing iso between frames and perhaps waiting a few days before downloading the files in the computer!
