Jens Bladt wrote: > One good reason - perhaps not yours - may have to do with > archiving pictures. > I'm pretty sure 90% of digital images won't make it to the > next generation. > I recently became a grand parent as my youngest daughter gave > birth to a girl. > I thought it was amusing to be able to show my daughter, now > a mother herself, pictures of her, when she was the same age > her daughter is now. If I had used a digital camera then, I > probably wouldn't have any photographs to show her. > They would be stored on some media, no longer readable or > they would simply be lost - except perhaps for a few fading prints. > I find it quite easy to have new prints made from 26 years > old negatives or slides. > > Another reason may be that the LX is such a lovely camera :-)
Certainly archiving is never far from my mind. I'm also (it would often seem) one of the few people left who enjoy slide shows and you need to take slides to do them! I can pick out ones I've taken decades ago and enjoy them today and my concerns of their long term care isn't quite as problematical as digital storage. I have no doubt that film has a much greater chance of survival forgotten in someone's cabinet drawer, rather than on a hard drive or CD/DVD/latest storage device. Keep taking the pictures (in film); they don't stay little for long and she'll soon want to see the photographs for herself. Of course the LX is great!! ;-) Malcolm
