This is one of the reasons I now try to remove all EXIF info regarding what camera, what lens etc on any photo that matters to me before I upload it to share anywhere. If it's still there and people can read it then it's just a snapshot to me and I don't care, but for my more serious work I honestly don't want people to know what camera, what lens, etc. I strip it except for my ID info. Why? Because I don't want which gear I used to be more important than the photo itself. I don't want my photo disregarded as something just my camera produced. Or worse yet completely disregarded because I'm not shooting with the latest and greatest Nikon or Canon whatever.
To some people that data it really is all that seems to matter. They will not be happy if they can't tell by the EXIF exactly what lens, what camera, what settings you used. I've had people say to me so many times "Oh, you used such and such a lens, so THAT'S why that shot looks so good." Well yeah, the lens I chose is a part of the reason that shot looks so good, sure, but I'M the main reason it does and I could probably have taken that same shot with another body or more than one lens in my kit. I love my cameras, each and every one of them, and I like most of my lenses too, but gosh darn it in the end they are just TOOLS, and I can swap them out, back and forth, and still make some pretty fine photographs regardless, THANK YOU.
Using a full frame camera, which is my case means film, does give me a bit more in terms of photographic real estate. Yes, sometimes the results will seem bigger and a bit more expansive, but in terms of actual picture quality I don't really see any appreciable increase in that just because I am using film. Shots with film can be slightly more panoramic than digital, and the film grain adds a bit of a pleasing effect too but it's nothing I can't add in Photoshop if I wanted to. If I really wanted to shoot digital and get basically the same shot I could. It would just take a bit more work. Shooting FF and film is something I do now because I just happen to like going there, using old cameras, and film sometimes. I don't even need my FF film cameras anymore. I just like them and continue to use them for sentimental reasons mostly.
Most of my cameras are so advanced now technologically that it scarcely matters which one I choose to use at any given time. I don't even think about it. I can get equally pleasing photos out of any of them really. All I need to do is pick one up and go. The fact that I have both a DSLR and a M43 set up is mostly about my physical limitations now. Sometimes I'm in so much pain I find it hard to lug my DSLR and lenses around. It's also about wanting to go about photographing stealth sometimes sans a very noticeable and covet worthy DSLR. I can actually take photos with the more cropped sensor that most people would never notice were made by one unless they knew for sure via the EXIF. I have some decent primes for my M43 kit and I'm comfortable with it. No, the sensor is not as big as the one one my K-30 but you'd never know it from the shots I've taken with it. I find anything above 12-16MP's it really doesn't matter so much how big the sensor is. So long as the lens I use isn't total crap, a coke bottle bottom pretending to be a camera lens, I'm going to do just fine.
I've had people tell me more than once that I can't advance photographically until I invest in a "serious" camera like Nikon or a Canon. That I can't advance until I am willing to consider a FF Nikon or whatever at that. I just smile, say "Uhuh..." and keep on using my Pentax gear. Most of them they don't have a clue as to what I or my cameras are capable of and when they do see that they're the ones who end up eating crow, not me. I'm shooting pro with a K-30. I shot pro with a K-x. No, I wasn't out there trying to shoot NFL games, but that's not my thing anyway and I don't need a camera that is capable of that type shooting. I could shoot a wedding though, with what I've got, if I ever wanted to (NOT!) and that's something I'm told I "can't possibly do without a proper Nikon, Canon, FF, whatever..."
I don't have anything against FF. I find it fun and pleasing at times to shoot film but there's nothing at this point in time that my film cameras can do that my digital ones can't. We're beyond that now with digital and just about any sensor. Only people who are into and who need extremely high end capacity still need to go with a bigger sensor, a medium or FF format camera. Personally I don't think it's worth the money for someone at my level, doing what I do, or for most hobbyists in general. It's pretty much overkill until you get to doing very high end work professionally. (That's also why I didn't pay over a grand for a K-3 instead of a K-5II or a K-30 when I just got a new DSLR. I simply did not need it. It was overkill, way too much camera for my current needs. I don't need 20 MP, 2 card slots etc, etc...) But to each his or her own. Some people they just like FF and have to have that regardless. Honestly I think it's more than they need, but that's their call to make not mine and it's their money they're willing to burn...
