If you want quality, particularly for prints, the best way to go, IMHO, is still analogue with a good quality film scanner. I moved to a digital camera largely because of it's convenience in my current condition.

I put together this comparison in case anyone finds it useful. They are all crops from much larger images, that I will gladly post if anyone wants me to. The leftmost image is digital and is taken from the raw TIFF output from my Nikon 990. The middle one is the same image with Photoshop unsharp mask applied at 100% with a 1 pixel resolution and 0 threshold. The rightmost image is scanned using a Nikon Coolscan 3 from a negative I took about 12 years ago. The only pre and post processing in this is a slight tonal shift to try and improve the comparison in terms of overall brightness. The originals were both taken at about the same time of year with overcast but fairly bright conditions.

Mike