Wow a lot of input and I have to agree with all of you. :-)

Dont get me wrong I have a huge respect for film photographers. reason being if I had to learn on film I dont think I would have stuck with it mainly because of the way I shoot.

with digital I can take many shots of the same subject because I can look and see right away what it looks like. and then adjust from there. if I had to shoot blind and not know what I had until I got them back from walmart. Oh my would that be a mess for me and lots of money spent trying to figure it out.

in some ways I feel not knowing film first it has hurt me on camera knowledge. because digital sure makes it easy to go by what you see and not by knowledge.
so I have a HUGE! respect for film photographers even any old guy that would call me a hack lol

and I have a huge respect for guys that do darkroom work as well. I know for a fact I would have gave up there as well. Just from the word chemicals would have sent me running alone lol

in photoshop if I dont like something I can hit undo. im pretty sure you dont have that luxury in a dark room lol
So I will never loose respect for film photographers at all they sure have payed their dues to bring us great photos with 10 times the amount of work then I have to go through with digital.

I think digital is great because it brings out more people like me that would have never got into photography if it wasnt for digital.

I will always consider film photographers as the original masters like what buddy guy was to stevie ray vaughan :-)