Ok, I understand now. He’s basically saying that film is better at retaining detail in the highlights and shadows. Speaking of blown highlights, I tried the grain preset for adding grain to blown highlights and it worked great. Thanks for your help Jimmy.

Hi Darren — Thanks for the comment. I messaged with Kyle about your question. He responded with this.

“The values in the highlights and shadows are easy to see when comparing digital to analog photos. Analog film has more dynamic range, so it registers more values in the very bright and very dark areas than images shot with digital cameras. Digital has more of a tendency to clip the blacks and whites, which makes them look dull, or flat and empty of information. Exposure’s controls for making adjustments to the highlight and shadow tones are very precise. They help pull blown highlights back from true white, which of ads detail to the whites so they have some data.”

Merci, Didier! :)