I guess it takes all sorts to make up this world.
One thing is that many have never experienced film photography, or manual lenses, so to them, without greater knowledge or experience, digital and AF are the only things that exist in their scope of photographic equipment.
Funny thing is these clients don't know that the hobbyist (read gear heads) have the best and most up to date equipment compared to working professionals. So if the equipment is too good, too new and too many, it is actually a red flag sometimes.
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I think it is a strange Singaporean behaviour. I have come across many situations Dream Merchant talked about earlier. When I use a lesser camera, a bunch of guys who seem to carry better equiped cameras with huge UWA lens looked "all powerful" and so full of pride and were eager to teach me a thing or two on street photography. When I whipped out my FF camera, the first question they asked is not about picture quality but how much I paid for it.
In the end, are we buying cameras to take snapshots or are we using it to compare our status? If it is the latter, then I think we are in the wrong boat.