On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 12:18, William Clark
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wrote re "RE: [OM] Digital photography article" saying:
...
> I agree with the distribution over email, but you know what, when people go
> over to friends' houses, it is the albums that come out and not the CD rom.
> Albums can be passed around and you can socialize over it. I dread the day
> when we sit in front of a TV to look at pics.
It's certainly here. The newer DVD players read video CDs which are
fairly easily created. At least with the TV, we can all laugh at the
same picture at once.
> My bet is that REGULAR consumers only take digital pics to email, when
> quality doesn't matter. Again on our trip to PEI this summer I just walked
> up to anyone with a digital camera and asked them what do they do with the
> pics (much to my wife's chagrin). Nobody printed them. They were for
> email. When it came time to take the mementoes, out came film. Digital has
> a very long way to go to replace film in this respect.
Until the old film cameras wear out, and colour printers get cheap and
fast.
> As for being cheaper I am not so sure. It maybe, but for the average
> consumer amortizing the cost of a printer+paper+ink maybe a stretch. I
> think alot of digital users now are going to find 10-15 yrs. from now that
> they have lost their pics due to hard drive crashes etc. I will stick
> mainly with film now, at least for "real" photography.
Me too, but mebbe that 100 year CD will last longer than the dyes in
our film and paper. It's certainly easier to backup.
tOM
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