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!
