Shel Belinkoff wrote:
My experience in this regard is small - dealing only with my family and
friends. My sister used to shoot a roll of film every now and then, and
get prints made and send them to me and other family members. Now she has
an inexpensive canon digi, and she uses email to send her photos. No film,
no prints, no memory card upgrades or other peripherals. Likewise many of
my friends who are not into the more serious aspects of photography. Of
all the people i know, only two have upgraded their cameras. One because
his original camera was stolen and the other because she and her husband
were going on the "trip of a lifetime" and decided they wanted more
megapixels and a longer zoom range. Everyone is shooting JPEGS, so a
single large memory card has proven to be sufficient thus far.
Shel
That's been my experience with a variety of people. Even worse for the
photohistorians amongst us, they have only one card; they print the odd
shot that they really like; they delete everything else.
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From: mike wilson
Agreed. But it also means that they won't be spending money on film and
p&p. That money will go elsewhere and I don't mean into other parts of
the industry. Sure, they will buy a digital camera. Like the film
cameras they bought, it will be the cheapest one they can find and they
will use it maybe a bit more than the film one. But they won't print
stuff off. They don't need to. The industry has given them a way of
seeing their pics for free and they will grab it with both hands.
