is there camera snobbery?

[winterstar]

Have you ever found that someone liked a photo less when learning it was taken on a P&S over a DSLR?

If it's truly the artist behind the camera that matters, why do some folks say it has to be a DSLR to have the quality to be professional?

Read this article, on a professional photographer who uses P&S's.

Rob Galbraith DPI: Alex Majoli points and shoots

Have you ever found that someone liked a photo less when learning it was taken on a P&S over a DSLR?

Actually, I haven't. But, that doesn't mean someone in the history of time hasn't thought something like that.

If it works... who really cares how the job is getting done?

Notice they did concede in the article the short comings of the P&S and his work really isn't geared for high buffer rates and high FPS.

~Eric

[gturner]

I think there is camera envy - IE it works in reverse.

[xtremekramer]

I have taken some great shots with my canon elph sd600.... I still proffer my Nikon D700. The elph makes a great pocket camera though and still gets used quite a bit.

[Gonzo13]

There is a little bit of snobbery in almost all walks of life. Granted I haven't had a P&S camera in my hand in a few years, so I haven't been able to compare. The ones that I used to use I could almost instantly tell the difference between them and the DSLR. I newest point and shoot camera that I have is about 5 years old and I am pretty sure they have made some advances.

[Jim Bryant]

It's not the camera but the photographers' eye.

[Arstine]

I have absolutely run in to something like this. I'm a member of a local car forum and they have a weekly theme contest. One week my girlfriend and I went out shooting together and she had a little Fuji Finepix S1500 and she shot an excellent shot for the week's theme. I submitted it and it was well ahead in the voting until it came out that it was shot with a P&S. Then all of her votes mysteriously disappeared. Much drama and BS but in the end it came out that the two "professional" photogs there didn't want to be shows up with a P&S so the rules, that were never written by the way, were changed to include SLR cameras only. Now they get 3 or 4 entries a week instead of the 15 - 20 they used to.

Neither one of us has submitted anything to that site since.

[spencer28n]

There probably is but the people who are snobbish about it are worthy of being ignored. If anything, I'm more impressed when I see fantastic images captured by point and shoots because it's more challanging. Think about it, we all have dSLRs because we it makes capturing our vision easier compared to using a point and shoot with less features. Using a point and shoot takes more skill to get what you want due to the auto exposures and what not.

[Bambe]

I think that snobbery might not be the right term here. You can definitely take excellent photos with a P&S but will hit limitations in regards to being able to manipulate the settings to get the effect you want. I have a cybershot that takes lovely photos but completely craps out in low light settings.

I look at it this way:
A great photographer will take an excellent photo with a P&S but give her a dSLR and the quality will improve. However, buying a dSLR will not make you take better pictures if you have no eye.

[OsmosisStudios]

Its so much the end result, it's the attitude of the artist. Some people turn into massive knobs when they get high-end camera gear. As of late, the big thing is to be "better" than someone by shooting film. The weirder, the better. It's like, by shooting film, one is automatically better than anyone else.

Yes, even if the results are crap.