Daniel Buck
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I agree with Lars. Even with film, the 'punch' comes from how you process/print the film, or when you're scanning, how you treat the levels and curves before printing. At least, that's what I've seen. Some lenses will provide a bit more contrast than others, some camera settings or film types will provide a different contrast curve, but it can all be tweaked, especially when it's digital, you can sit and watch the changes as you do them.
With my film scans, I scan them flat, so all the information is easily accessed with a curves layer. From there, I can leave it flat, I can make it very high contrast, I can give it deep/crisp shadows and lifted midtones and highlights, more contrast in the mid tones, softer rolloff on the highlights, lifted shadows, or whatever I want really. 
If you aren't familiar with adjusting images with curves, I would suggest you sit down and play with it for a bit, with a few curves layers and some masking (if you want to control parts of the image separately) the curves adjustments can be very powerful
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