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Subject: Re: A reflection on digital camera use.
Why still use film?
Last week my wife (who consults re Creative Memories archival
scrapboooking
thingies)
talked to a woman whose home computer crashed.
Five (5) years of digital data all gone. And the backups were
non-existent.
Oh the stories I get.....
I had a lady across the counter this very day. She had some files on a CD
that she had resized for email. Tiny little things, in the 350x500 range.
She wanted 4x6 prints.
She had deleted the camera files after saving her email sized crap because
they were "so big".
While we geeks & tech weenies here may revel is our success,
as we all know, something is going to happen sometime.
So I still shoot *some* 135 film. And a lot of digital.
But not all of either. I like having a neg. B&W & c-41.
I was worried about my line of work becoming redundant, but I don't think
that will happen anytime soon, now. It seems to be slowly sinking into the
average snapshooter that the best way of keeping a picture is to get a
picture and keep it safe.
Very few of my customers seem all that computer savvy.
William Robb
