That's not entirely true. Most places that have a minilab will still do
prints. I almost hate to admit this, but my brother and sister in law
have probably never put the CF card from their Canon Rebel into the card
reader on their home computer. They take the card to a lab and pay
someone to download the pictures, make standard 4x6 "proof" prints, and,
(I hope), burn the pictures to a CD, (though I've been afraid to ask).
I'm so ashamed.
Toralf Lund wrote:
> Mark Roberts wrote:
>
>> mike wilson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> mike wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> He eliminated (many of) those in-camera. The point is still that
>>>>> 3000 files is not the same as 3000 prints or slides. Produce
>>>>> equal numbers of the same end product before you tell me that
>>>>> it is cheaper.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It's cheaper because you don't *have* to produce *any* prints.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There's something wrong with that logic. Once I work out what it is,
>>> I'll get back to you.
>>>
>>>
>> There's nothing wrong with that logic because, odd as it may seem to
>> old 20th-century farts like you and me, the print is no longer the
>> preferred medium for viewing photographs, at least for most people.
>>
>>
> I don't know. I've heard many people talk about how they miss their
> family album now that they've switched to digital. In that sense, prints
> is what they *prefer*, it just doesn't seem to occur to them that they
> can still make them, or it's harder to get around to having them
> produced when they're no longer a part of the standard package. Then
> again, perhaps getting the prints from that envelope they give you at
> the lab into an actual album was also quite "hard" in the past... And of
> course, not all the prints went into the album in most cases.
>
> I've also been wondering what will happen after people have lost all
> their photos because they wiped out the entire hard disk enough times,
> or find that they have no idea where their favourite pictures are
> located because they've switched computers so many times since they were
> taken...
>
> - T
>
>
>
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