Well, if I had to guess I'd say that KB Camera probably has a lot of old stock in film cameras and the owner, personally, is not too enamored of digital and tries to downplay it to justify a lack of business sense. Just guessing.
When I began my photo training (about 30 years ago), we were all issued 4x5 Speed Graphics to begin learning with. Lucky me, I had been previously trained by an old-time calendar photographer who gave me an excellent photographic background, so this was easy for me.
But large format was old technology even then, and there were precious few holdouts. The few commercial clients who knew the difference between large format and 35mm were willing to pay for it, ie: in those days Playboy required that level of image quality (they were shooting centerfolds on 8x10 transparency at the time). Nowadays very few of us have even seen a view camera, let alone know how to work with one.
Point is that time and technology march on, and we all have to go with it. When was the last time you bought a music album on 8 track or cassette? Might have been a good system in the day, but like it or not it just isn't being done anymore.
I just recently switched to digital because every photo processing provider I deal with uses digital processing, and it no longer makes any sense for me to let them put digital steps between my film and my prints when I could just skip all that and go straight to digits myself, thus keeping the quality chain strong and taking more control of the process myself.
So I find that I have greater creative control now. What I used to have to pay someone else to do in the lab or do myself (with a significant expense in time and equipment) I now do quickly and easily with a [relatively] cheap computer program. Honestly, I wonder why I waited so long.
I agree, the right tool for the job is always how we should approach any task, photgraphic or otherwise. In my garage I have some antique tools and I use them when the occasion deems those tools are the right ones. A competent photographer should know how to use both film and digital. But in today's "time is money" environment, it's hard to be competitive with film unless that is exactly the tool the should be used and the client can be convinced to spend the extra bucks to achieve whatever effect that only film can provide. And I have had instances where film was the best choice. But those occasions are becoming more and more uncommon as time goes on.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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