Well, I went onto the "analog forum", looked around, then looked at "Today's Posts", saw this thread as potentially interesting, but failed to notice that I had crossed the border into the Hybrid Empire with its own dialect. My mistake; so I scurried back over the border before the posse got rounded up. Guess I better double check the fine print next time. But it's hard not to poke fun at the flip of terminology itself. It meant a certain thing for nearly 200 years, and then suddenly all bets are off.
But at least I was less blunt about the term than many digital imaging pros I've run into who wished they had the time and space to do "real" photography too - THEIR WORDS, not mine - and not "analog". I've never heard that expression used by any of them. And here I am, at the geographic epicenter of the tech revolution. Often it's more a question, "I just inherited my uncles's camera, so where can I buy real film?" Why would those types want a relaxing hobby the same as what they are forced to do to make a living? Think about it.
Plenty of techies are buying vintage film cameras and film. They don't think of it as backwards, but as trendy. ... Yeah, real estate is now obscenely expensive here, so many of them resort to labs to process the film and print it for them, or to provide them with a scan too, so in that sense, practice "hybrid", whether they consider it ideal or not. But I've never even heard them using the term, "hybrid". They just do what they can do, then supplement that with a professional service.
