Re: No film shooters Hi Peter. nearly missed your post here, since it's nearly a month after
mine was posted. However, to the point of the matter.
Like a lot of words and/or phrases, meaning can get generalized from the
original particular meaning to a more general meaning referring more or
less loosely to the original. Of course the original Luddites were a
group of workers opposed to the introduction of powered weaving looms
doing them out of a job. Similar situations in many fields have
happened countless times over the years with increasing automation, and
opposed by displaced workers, who, because of the similarity to the
Luddites, were called Luddites.
The term is now less constrained, so that reference to
wordnet.princeton.edu has the meaning "any opponent of technological
progress", and most people would agree with that, I should think.
So, the minority, as I said before, of film shooters who doggedly oppose
digital photography, and claim that (35mm) film is always better in
every respect, are Luddites.
As for 'bandying' the word about indiscriminately, that's your
perception. I don't consider that Anni or myself do 'bandy' it about.
As far as I can recall, it is almost always used in response to a film
type denigrating digital in general one way or another, some of them
losing no opportunity to have a dig.
OTOH, you might note that neither Anni nor myself denigrate film, Anni
still uses film in his Totally Fabulous 1v. I gave my film camera (EOS
10)to my daughter, and I have never put film down. Trouble is, when one
talks about digital, some infer from that that film must be being put
down. That is faulty logic, a common mistake.
Colin D.
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