That's the process Paul. The more accurate comparison would be: viewing photos on screen (monitor or digital picture frame) or in print.
Which do you prefer? I think the popularity of self publishing sites like Blurb, DIY photo kiosks and the photo books that you can get made at the local office supply & camera store chains indicates a backlash against the initial digital photography method of sharing & displaying photos (ie on screen.) IMO, people just like looking at hard copy prints. You can sit in a circle with family & friends and deal them out like playing cards, and tell the story behind the shot, or the person/people in the shot. It's a much more sociable way than just emailing the file or link to the same group of family/friends. Cheers, Dave 2009/2/28 Paul Stenquist <[email protected]>: > It wasn't that long ago that so many of us waxed poetic over film. We paid > homage to the process, marveled at the wonder of a print coming to life in > the developing tray, swore that we would never be seduced by the overpriced > toys that were digital cameras. > > Film is forever. When we're old and breathing our last, we'll all make one > last stand in the darkroom, breathe the pungent fumes of hypoid and praise > the gods of silver and cellulose. > > Yeah. Right. > > Paul > On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Bob W wrote: >>> >>> There are more pleasures in reading than just reading. >> >> From the article I referenced (that everyone, apparently, refuses to >> read): >> >> "Books? Every one of us in this room could write an anthem to the book. >> The feel of a fine binding, the smell of newly opened pages, the satisfying >> heft of a book in your hands -- can anything top it? When I get home at >> night, before dinner I sit with a drink in my hand in a room full of books, >> each one of them an old friend who has accompanied me on part of my life >> voyage. The book of poems I loved in college, the biography that first >> introduced me to a great historical figure twenty years ago, the novel that >> entertained me on a vacation, or maybe the one that explained a piece of the >> world to me. " >> >> "As you can see, I can get sentimental about these things we call, by >> inference, the old media. They mean a lot to me, emotionally as well as >> economically -- and I suspect they do to all of you, too. I believe they >> are, after food, clothing and shelter, and after our family relations and >> our friendships, the most important things in our lives. >> >> "And I believe one more thing: I believe they, and all forms of print, are >> dead. Finished. Over. Perhaps not in my professional lifetime, but certainly >> in that of the youngest people in this room. " >> >> "...let me put it this way: you may prefer to ride across town in >> horse-and-carriage, or across a lake in a wind-powered yacht, but no one >> makes that carriage or that yacht for you anymore, at least not at a >> reasonable price. So too with the book in the future..." >> >> Read the whole (short) piece: >> http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0002/okrent.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
