Digital BW, The Print

In the debate over shooting digital -vs- shooting film and scanning 
there is one quality advantage to shooting digital that I don't see 
mentioned.

When you shoot digital the resulting file is first generation! Meaning, 
the original scene passes through just the camera lens and on to the 
capture chip. When shooting film the image passes through the camera 
lens on to the film and then when scanning a second lens is involved 
with possible imperfections. Then there is chance that the film is not 
laying flat.. and the the potential of grain aliasing.. and some curve 
or setting in the scanning driver software not being optimal. And how 
many of us can afford the best film scanners and become masters at the 
scanning process ? All these pitfalls are eliminated when shooting 
digital. For this reason... often when I look at files from GOOD 
digital cameras the tones seem to be smoother and the transitions 
better than work shot on film and scanned. I think it has to do with 
the fact that the vast majority of scans are less than perfect in some 
regard.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

-Jeff