John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Toralf Lund wrote: >> >> >>> I don't know. I've heard many people talk about how they miss their >>> family album now that they've switched to digital. >>> >> By talking about people who have *switched* to digital you've >> automatically excluded the age group I'm talking about :) >> > > Digital is making inroads at the other end of the age spectrum, too. > My mother (90 a couple of weeks ago) has severe arthritis, and would > find turning the pages in a photo album a rather laborious process. > But with a digital photo frame she can look at a few hundred images > without lifting a finger, even though she is otherwise not a part of > the digital revolution (no PC, no eMail, etc.). My brother and I > coordinate so that either of us can produce an updated set of images > on an SD card. While a VGA-resolution image at 72dpi may not be up > to the standards of a high-quality print on archive paper I doubt if > the difference is discernable to my mother's eyes. > It's not really about the quality of the image. At least not directly. The problem would rather be that today's computer screens just feel less comfortable to look at than printed material and/or more stressful to the eyes.
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