Digital BW, The Print

I am planning to shoot with my Canon D-30, which will give me a
8-bit,  
17 meg file if I save it as a raw file in the camera.   If needed, I 
will use Genuine Fractals to interpolate the file size up.  Does any 
one see a problem with this approach?

Does any one shoot digitally or are most people still shooting film? 

How does a digital image compare to a scanned neg. in print quality?

 Is Genuine Fractals the best  way interpolate a digital file?