I thought it might be a good time to link to an old post of mine, from over two years ago.
What prompted this?
Looking at some images from a popular website, where a guest photographer was sharing his experience with one of the latest cameras. The images were beautiful, but the processing was over the top. Too plastic.
When processing, my friends, you have to keep it real.
–Peter.
Prosophos 
I’ll dive in!
I have mixed feelings about this becasue in truth I actually enjoyed the images in question.
There are a lot of traps in photography, over-processing is one of them and it’s definitely one I have been guilty of and still am on many occasions.
If I look at the M Monochrom as an example its incredibly easy to go too far with the processing of these files, they literally beg you to do so 🙂 whilst I like this image it’s the case here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/52590822@N05/10253112283/
Shooting film, if I look at a shot which I like equally from the M6 http://www.flickr.com/photos/52590822@N05/10349360436/ it makes me realise that less is certainly more most of the time.
What’s most important is being aware of it and trying to manage it, for me, shooting film along side digital is certainly a way offset the temptations of software and act as a reminder to “keep it real” at the same time.
Jason as much as that B&W is nice in its own way, the first reaction I have towards it is unrealistic. In other words that’s not how my eyes would see the real scene, it leans more towards art and has software written all over it, to me that’s getting away from photography in the simplest sense. I know that’s just one opinion but I much preferred the film shot.