Why, why, why, will it never end?

Once again, I see a huge debate in a photography forum about, “the best photographers learned on various types of film.” Why, why, why?! Who cares what you learned on? I know a wide variety of photographers and have seen all sorts of photographic work. It doesn’t matter what you learned using. The results are the proof in the pudding so to speak.

I realize there is a certain element of social media forum that just have to try to rile up the crowd. Those, aren’t really the people that concern me but the multitudes that jump on the wagon in support of this mindset.

Digital photography has existed in the consumer environment for nearly 40 years now, wow how time flies. While digital may have been limited and a bit slow to take off, in the past 20 years it has truly gained traction and now outsells film and film equipment by volume. To me, it is very similar to the Photoshop debate, those who started and more than likely struggled with film photography believe that everyone has to do the same way they did. It’s time to let it go. Digital photography is real photography. Photoshop is the digital darkroom. Get over it camera trolls! While I may write about the topic in my blog, I refuse to engage them in their social media debate.

I’ll never give up my digital cameras, well unless something so far unknown replaces digital photography with a different format. Yes, I would like to, on occasion, shoot film but my current setup doesn’t allow for it very well even though I still own many working film cameras.

The whole concept of “best” is subjective. The photograph or photographer I think of as best the next person may not agree with. We’re all photographers creating our art and the media and format we choose don’t make one group better than the other.