There are three main kinds of photographers: Film, Digital, and Did not answer.
Film photographers are usually hardcore film people. Almost all of them do not have any form of Digital SLR, nor do they have any plans for ever owning digital. These Film photographers pride themselves in processing film, and using super old tools to show that they are far superior to digital photographers, since it's more difficult. They also believe that photography as an art, is still just being able to process film. Most take their film to Costco unfortunately, or have those "mom and pop shops" process them because that's way more hip. If any processing is done by themselves, it's usually in black and white. They generally don't do Flickr, but hitup forums talking about how old their equipment is, and what cool camera body they found at a garage sale. The older and more plastic the camera is, the cooler they are. They try to find digital photographers in order to show off a superior skill.
Digital photographers love their gadgets. They always ignore and try to avoid talking and mingling with film photographers, mostly because they don't want to realize that their photography skills might just be because of their awesome digital tools, and not their actual ability to take photos. Thus they avoid film photographers if they can help it, and flock together in packs, usually picking fun at those who have a different brand of camera than them (Nikon vs Canon is a usual argument starter). Digital guys usually have a Nikon or Canon strap that they uncomfortably use, but must wear to show off their gear brand. Digital photographers also almost always use Flickr, and brag about the exif information and like to tag their photos with their equipment information. You're a good digital photographer if you know how two use all sorts of equipment, including flash, strobes, white balance techniques, etc. Conversations you will hear include: "crop and full frame sensors," "Nikon is so slow to provide updated lenses, hence my photos are being hindered," "Canon's quality control has gone down, I might have to switch if it wasn't for their awesome 1080p," "read the manual, it tells you how to set your white balance". In order for some digital photographers not to feel like they totally depend on technology, they claim to only shoot in JPG and not RAW because they're hardcore and a pretty big hypocrite (analogous to film photographers resistance towards digital film in the form of RAW).
Then there are the photographers who didn't answer if they were film or digital, mostly because they're actually out taking good photos that everyone else is missing.
So don't be like me, sitting around writing blog posts and reading about gear, get out there and take good photographs.
(photo taken of issa when we were at Sterling Vineyards in Napa)
