Chris, you just know the A stands for Analogue,🙂 nothing extreme or psycho about one place without digital discussion.
CW
I know APUG is about film, not digital. That's not the problem. I shoot 100% film; I gave my son my digital SLR! Some (not all) APUG members are psychotic.
Some examples: one guy was all angsty because he wanted to scan negatives of photos he printed in the darkroom so that he'll have a JPEG to put on his website. The problem? He dodged and burned and adjusted contrast by using multigrade filters when he did the traditional prints in his darkroom, but he was afraid that if he did the same adjustments to the scan to make it match his prints that he is somehow selling his eternal soul to the digital Satan. F--king stupid. Others won't scan their prints or film for the web, forgoing having a website, because they find any use of a computer so repugnant (except to post their ignorant rants on APUG) that they just cannot do it, even if it means not having a website and the sales it would bring.
Another guy was demanding that galleries that asked him to show his work refuse to hang digital prints in the same shows his work was shown in. Good luck with that one, spiffy. A photo or art gallery that shows both digital and film images is NOT going to let some nobody (this guy was not famous) dictate what they show. He said he was going to refuse to participate in any exhibits that showed any art or photography where a computer was involved in any way. All this fool was doing was shooting his own career in the foot. The galleries don't give a damn, they have too many photographers wanting exhibited anyway, so he gave them an excuse to slam the door in his face.
THOSE are examples of being psycho, and the guys who are the most shrill in their HATRED of digital tend to be the ones with the least exhibition record and the most insignificant work. They think they're making themselves look superior by being 'all analogue', but in an art world that shows, buys, sells, and produces work in hundreds of art media such extreme prejudice is looked on as the moral equivalent of refusing to eat at a restaurant that serves black people. Its not going to do anything but torpedo your career. I don't mean that using analogue techniques only is bad for your career, but acting like digital techniques are some sort of moral contagion that you refuse to allow anywhere near your work most certainly is.
