I take film photos, fair enough, I like loading a sheet of 5x4 film into a film holder, going out to find a pleasing scene, take some time over the composition and to wait for the light to be just right, that whole ritual is the pleasure.
Other people take digital, except for loading the film, digital photographers can take as much or as little care in producing the image, there's room for both types of image capture.
However; I'm becoming a tad pissed off about seeing on auction sites that the reason for selling film equipment is that the seller is UPDATING to digital. The same sentiment can be found in the letters pages of photographic magazines, where the proud owner of a spanking new digital camera has to justify the purchase with the word, update?
Now, digital, undoubtedly, can be much more convenient than film photography, but, and it's a big but, convenience is not, automatically, an increase in quality; it's more convenient to cook a beefburger (stomach churns at the thought) than a piece of steak, is that updating? Nor is convenience necessarily conducive to skill when you can keep taking and deleting pics until you get one right.
I would guess that, in the main, there are three types of photographer: the happy snappers who takes pics of auntie Mildred on the beach, it doesn't matter what type of camera they use, camera phone, film compact, cheap digital, as long as there is a reasonable pic for the family album. Then there are the serious amateur photographers, they use good quality digital bridging cameras; good quality film rangefinder cameras such as Voigtlander, Leica; or digital/film SLRs; or medium/large format cameras. The smallest group is the professionals, because of the demands of deadlines, they mostly use digitals, and in news photography that is rapidly moving to camcorder capture where snippets of moving pictures can be shown on websites.
The pic up there is mist at Parndon, this jpeg is not a patch on the proper printed pic, way of the world.
Ah well, that's enough for the mo, me brain is starting to hurt :-)
