I respectfully have a beef with digital photography, although let me make it clear that the beef is not with the fine people who use digital.
I own a digital camera as well as some nice 35mm Nikon gear. I've shot both digital and 35mm for years, more than enough to have formed this opinion.
With digital almost all pictures come out crystal clear as long as your not jumping up and down while taking the picture. Anyone can take a good picture with a Digital camera. Unlike negative or slide photography, I feel digital photograpy has absolutly no challenges. Just point and shoot. As long as the shooter has a good subject and has an eye for good composition, the pictures seem to always come out perfect. Virtually no skill level is needed.
My biggest beef is when when I see a digital image in any critique forum asking for everyone's opinion on the image. With a digital image, what can I critique? "hummmm....yea your picture is crystal clear. Nice image" Wippy do!! You recorded a image. It almost angers me to be asked to critique a digital image.
With negative or slide there is a higher skill level needed. From an artistic stand point, more can be done to record an image. Unlike digital, a image can be recorded as the photographer wants the veiwer to see it.
I realize I will probably get shot in the back while walking down the street for writing this, but what do you all think?