Am I a Film Snob?

[Ian David]

What it amounts to is they (the 'D' people) are looking for instant gratification, not high quality.
You ,myself and others that use film want high quality and take pride in what we do.

Yep, you qualify as a film snob. People who, for their personal work, prefer to use digital rather than film are indeed looking for something different from what I am looking for. However, to say they are necessarily not looking for high quality is a ridiculous generalisation. The digital process leaves me cold, but if you have never seen an amazing digital print then you don't get out enough.

 

[BetterSense]

This isn't really a digital thing. Someone shooting with, say, an EOS 3 or EOS 1v might tell you the exact same thing.

Perhaps it because in digi-land, 6 months really is nearly antique.

 

[EASmithV]

Hah, I'm not going to deny it. I'm a film snob of the highest affliction.

Handheld LF ftw

 

[nickstreme]

handheld or bust

 

[snegron]

I see snobbery on both sides of the issue at times. Last year I ran into a digital snob at a local flea market/sidewalk sale. She had several old items on her table including an old Gossen hand held light meter. When I picked up the meter to take a closer look at it, she told me that I wouldn't be interested in it because it was an old meter for film cameras and that newer cameras don't need them because everyone has gone digital. I told her that I shoot with both film and digital and that I enjoyed using old film cameras to which she replied, "everyone knows that digital is better" in the most snobbish tone I have ever seen. She went on saying that I obvoiusly didn't know anything about photography if I was still buying old film equipment! She continued making rude comments and behaved like an absolute jerk! I couldn't believe that she was the one who was selling the old equipment to begin with, yet she behaved in a way that made me feel she didn't want to sell anything to me! Needless to say I walked away without buying anything from her table.

When it comes to digital snobbery, what I mostly run into are the countless people who spend $400.00 on a new 15mp P&S and swear that their images will look better than what I get with my old Mamiya 645.

As far as film snobbery goes, I have run into several people that look down on me whenever I use my Nikon D200, or whenever I dare say that I am able to get very nice 11" x 14" prints from them (despite the fact that I do my own postprocessing and print with my "old" Epson R2400 printer).


In the end, I think we should all just learn to get along and respect others choices without belittling the other. It would probably eliminate snobbery and we could all live happy in a world mixed with film and digital cameras!

 

[Sirius Glass]

In the end, I think we should all just learn to get along and respect others choices without belittling the other. It would probably eliminate snobbery and we could all live happy in a world mixed with film and digital cameras!

But I would be even happier in a film only and Mac only world! What a wonderful place it would be!

Steve