The "film purist" bit at NG was only a restriction on entries to some contests they run, and in fact it was a transparency film purism, excluding even images output to transparencies that originated in other media like that sinful colour negative film. (I will almost abstain from repeating the rants about how, to be consistent with their dogmatism about unadulterated images, they should have also banned the use of filters on cameras and high saturation films in contest submissions.)
They have for some time been happy to use material from digital sources for their articles.
it is also nice, amidst the wars over which technology gives the absolutely best image quality, to be reminded again that even such "obsolete lumps" as the Fuji S1 and Nikon D1X can do good professional work!