Digital BW, The Print

I am interested in hearing opinions on the relative merits of film 
versus digital capture for images to be printed in B&W.

How would an image captured on 35 mm film and scanned with a Nikon 
Coolscan V compare to an image captured directly on a 6 mp Digital 
SLR?

For those who use film, do you prefer to use B&W or color film? What 
are your favorite films?

It seems to me that color digital capture or color film capture would 
offer more control over the image when brought into Photoshop and 
converted to B&W using the channel mixer.

Thaks,

Roger