"Yee ha! I don't have to bother getting prints to see my photos any
more!" No more boxes of prints to store!
I suspect a lot of regular consumers (not all of them) feel this way,
too. Having boxes of prints to store is a hassle. Perhaps they'll regret
it years down the road, after a major hard drive crash, but the number
of people I've known with lost negatives and prints over the years makes
me think it's a case of "plus ca change..." Digital doesn't make it
*more* likely that people will lose their precious family photos, it
just means it'll happen in a different way.
The average digital consumer probably isn't going to print all his shots
anyway, just a few of the ones he needs or considers "keepers" So, there is
the potential for less consumer paper use with digital even though there is
the potential for taking more shots (cheaply) with digital.
RCB
