I go for the 'dark' B&W shots too. In particular some of the graveyard ones, the kids bedrooms and your favourite Millenium path(?) with your daughters. Its to do with the mood/feelings they evoke in your mind - sometimes realworld, trucolor (tm) depictions of the world sell us well short of what we experience. So good on ya for going with what you like and not necesarily listening to the 'purists'.

And of course this means theres always a place in the bag for those older cameras. Certainly for me, most of my favourite/strong images (by me and others) aren't due to their 'technical' accuracy at the time of exposure. But hey, maybe I'm not a 'proper' photographer ;-)