Monster being helpful. I've been carrying this film camera around, as well as a 12MP digital SLR. The more I use digital, the more I appreciate film. But the digital is easy to love for its fast feedback - no waiting until you finish the film roll. But the DSLR is not a very good camera, though its not a cheap one, it can't compare to a film SLR for speed of use. This Pentax P3n was inexpensive in its day, but its viewfinder is so much better than the DSLR's its hard to even compare. The small image in the DSLR viewfinder is hardly better than the parallel finder on my older Oly C5050. Trying to focus manually with a short zoom is hard enough to make your eye water. The image quality is fine, its just the viewfinders on these things that are awkward.
I'd get a Canon 5D, which has a 24x36mm CCD, and so I assume it has a viewfinder the same size as a film SLR's. But its $5000 for the body. You can buy a lot of film for that much, and get a neg scanner.
So I'm increasingly convinced that digital cameras are nowhere near ready to displace film SLRs. They seem to be doing it anyway.