That is the viewpoint from a collector, of course. If we don't produce any artifacts now, there won't be anything to collect later.
The basic concept has been brought up several times over the last many years. Not only do people not make prints, they don't get the photos off of their devices. I guessing most of us know someone that lost all of the photos when a phone or computer was lost. Apple, Google, Smugmug and others may help a little bit as photos taken on a phone can automatically be copied to the Internet, but when the person quits using the account (for whatever reason) all of those photos go away. If you don't take an active part in constantly backing up your photos, and moving them to whatever new and improved media emerges, they will be gone. As silly as it sounds, the fragile paper print may be the most archival media for most people simply because it can be put in a shoebox, stuffed under the bed and forgotten for a few decades. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2013-08-10 10:42 Bill wrote > >> Very few people actually do any sort of back-ups at all >> on their computers, the vast majority of people are totally dependent on >> the >> one copy of the file they have tucked away in "My Documents/My Pictures" >> lasting forever. > > > i think that is changing as the capacity evolves for the picture taking > apparatus to automatically duplicate, and to some extent preserve, its > output > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
