I can easily imagine the shrieks from glass plate advocates, saying that purchasing pre-coated flexible transparent artificial material to expose in a flimsy camera is tantamount to original sin.
The point is, of course, that there have been changes in available materials and knowledge. Call it by another name if you wish, but the combination of photo- (i.e. light) and -graphy (i.e. writing) is appropriate to digital use as well as analog use as I see it. Whether you like one or the other, or whether you thing one is better than another, depends on how much work goes into getting good results.
I have to admit that when 'charge-coupled-devices' were introduced into astronomic photography, I thought it would turn astronomy into a sham science. That was dumb of me; I don't think Art Faul is dumb, he's just got strong opinions.
-yoram
