Film versus digital

Digital photography has been available to the consumer market for over 30 years, however, I still see the debate of film photography versus digital photography. I listened to a podcast just yesterday and the podcaster talked about digital as if it isn’t really photography. I really don’t get it. Why, after 30 plus years are still having this discussion? Does it really matter that much? To me, I don’t care. Shoot the medium you like but don’t try to make your choice better than that of others. Is it that these photographers feel so threatened by newer technology? Is it that they don’t believe that those who shoot digital have “paid their dues”? I do miss some things about film photography, but there are a lot of things I don’t miss.

I’m all for keeping the old film techniques and processes alive. I enjoy seeing photographs using methods from long ago. I applaud those that can still do photographs using those methods but I also like seeing photographs made with digital cameras and edited using computer software. To me, the medium used doesn’t matter as long as the resulting image captures my attention. In fact, I love the older technology so much that I collect a number of old cameras. The oldest one I have currently is a No. 3 folding Hawkeye which is about 115 years old, but I prefer to shoot digital.

Let the debate die and enjoy photography for photography’s sake. Let’s create art and use whatever medium we want to use without making one better than the other.