Originally Posted by Nick_b
So I've been reading a lot of anti digital rhetoric around here and I'm wondering why?!? I think it's pretty universally acceptable that the photographer makes the photo not the camera, so why all the snobbery towards digital. It's simply another way to take a photo...... Also I'd just like to say digital cameras take photographs. That is not something exclusive to film cameras.
Perhaps a part of what you perceive is a further extension of the Snobbery against the Popular (i.e. Canon, Nikon) that Pentaxians tend to hold. Because these days the most popular way of shooting Pentax is digital, there are those who further satisfy their contrarian streaks by enthusing about film.
Despite a sentence here or there about film making photographs rather than images (or however it's said, ask Brendan Frazier!) these aren't put-downs of people who prefer digital, or even digital photography, necessarily. I see it all as a voracious, life affirming inclusiveness and gusto. Plus as always, making the less popular choice exposes one socially: we all form little slogans to help ourselves out of that dilemma, whether we admit so or not.
After all, if one takes your statement as literal, then what the hell are we doing using an also-ran digital technology, cameras with obvious design limitations caused by r&d budget constraints, and a lens/accessory system that is far less extensive than the competition's, and marketed as niche product in the shadow of the far better engineered and usable competition? Yes, we should be using Canon and Nikon, and keeping an eye on how Sony revitalizes Minolta.
Oh but us Pentax users aren't snobby, we don't complain how badly or unfairly the reviewers review the equipment, we don't joke about the clueless CaNik users, or rhapsodize how much better the exposure, picture quality, and focus actually are!