Comparing digital cameras to film cameras seems like comparing a digital watch to one with a sweeping hand.
Digital time is precise, but limited to discrete moments.
It is something very different than the sweep of time described by a hand making an orbit of hours, where 7 p.m. still shows at 8, and a glimpse of midnight still is visible when the alarm goes off at dawn. Discrete digital dots versus the apparent continuous tones of film has been the visible difference between these media in the past. But even film images are made of separate bits. Even some painters use small dots of color in anticipation of our eyes blending them into images. For pointillist painters and film and digital camera owners, the number and size of dots is critical to achieving an image.