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From: "E.R.N. Reed"
Subject: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
Mark Roberts wrote:
Even if they have a computer they may not use it for viewing photos.
But if they use it for email, they probably *do* use it for viewing photos
(as they'll have relatives and possibly friends who want to share pictures
by email.)
Most of the photos viewed on computers are yer basic pornography.
A lot of people are turning back to photo labs for prints from digital.
It seems that we not only like looking at pictures, we also like the social
interaction of having a stack of prints that we can pass around to our
friends.
We are now seeing a lot of pictures that are being uploaded to our server
from other parts of the country to be printed and picked up by locals who
are home from vacation.
They aren't emailing files, they are, in effect, sending paper prints across
country via ftp.
They can make pictures on inkjet printers at home, but it is very expensive,
and for a lot of people, it is also a technical challenge that they don't
want to take on.
William Robb
