Digital BW, The Print

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 05:52 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>
> Note that digital provides B&W results that are significantly inferior 
> to
> shooting B&W film.
>

Can you tell me why this is the case? If I wanted to make an 8x 10 B&W 
print using a hextone ink system From a 6 MP digital SLR raw camera 
file (that has me carefully processed and converted to grayscale) as 
opposed to shooting a B&W medium format neg and scanning it.... what 
would be lacking? If you could please tell me your answer in real world 
results rather than... just numbers.. that would be great.

Thanks in advance!

-jeff