On 16 May 2005 at 22:58, Jens Bladt wrote: > Most people buy digiatal cameras without realizing why they want it. If you > want > 4x6 print for your family album (that's what most people want), thers no > reason > to go digital. I believe history will remember our generation as the > generation > that didn't leave any photographs for the next generatoin. They will die as > fast > as the harddrives, CD's and servers within which they only exist for a few > years, perhaps as much as a decade. Then they'll be lost forever.
I'm with you regarding the environmental impact aspect of changing phones yearly (or more) I personally have a hand-me-down and have only owned 4 mobile phones since 1992. I think it's a very sad state of affairs that you can often buy a new phone and service cheaper than it costs to just maintain a service on an existing phone. Now back to your point regarding the loss of a generation of images. I think that you are partially correct in that a lot of people will lose information left on HDDs which isn't backed-up. However I'd venture to say that most of these same people would most likely have either lost, damaged or discarded their negatives too if they had still been using 35mm print film. Ask a lab these days how many people bring in the negs for enlargement, generally they only have a 4x6 print to hand over. The vast majority of the lay-people who I know that now are using digital cameras for all their happy snaps most are getting prints made regularly. All that seems to have changed is that they don't print everything. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
