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Hear hear DG. There are some memories that will never be beaten by today's digital lifestyle. My family and I still get much more enjoyment out of flipping through the old albums of pics stuck-fast behind plastic wrap then clicking through files and folders on the hard drive.

Jag | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 1:46 a.m. | #

One can argue the merits of then and now for hours. It needn't be like you describe. If you like the photo you can still print it off so you have lost nothing. The hard disk drive crash issue will be a bit of a red herring in future as there is the alternative of the USB stick (currently around £36 for 2GB) and hard drives in PC's will be gradually ousted by solid-state drives. The critical questions are how quickly modern prints deteriorate and in the distant future will you still have the software to view you decades-old JPEG files.

Pedantic of Purley | 16.05.06 - 5:27 a.m. | #

Slides of the past, unless stored optimally, have the same problems as digital pictures stored only on CDs though... they degrade (or disintegrate).

I still print out my digital pics and put them in albums. Looking at them on the screenis just not the same.

Value Tip - Boots digital printing service - 7p per print on the 24 hour service. Cheaper than printing them yourself, and they are colourfast, unlike many inkjet inks.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 9:30 a.m. | #

i can't believe you went to a fair without me! i love carters dive-bombers.

dave | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 11:26 a.m. | #

I've recently starting shooting film again (medium format, this time), and am going to start developing my own, too. Digital's all very well, but who wants perfect images every time? Not me.

Ant | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 1:57 p.m. | #

There's a coincidence, I just loaded this page while searching on eBay for archive quality blank CD's.

And I still print out the pictures I want to keep (using my local friendly chemist). Curiuos fact in Amateur Photographer this week that in the UK we print about 50\\% less of our digital photos than in other countries. Or just maybe we just take 100\\% more, for example the 300 I took over the last two day's work residential, none of which will be printed.

Ham | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 8:15 p.m. | #

And no burglars likely to nick your channel island photos either.

In my research, Boots lab prints (as opposed to the DIY machine) give pretty good results. Not as good as the superlative Snappy Snaps, but pretty good.

I may print less digital photos, but I look at them more, I think.

ian | Homepage | 16.05.06 - 10:05 p.m. | #

Gonna spend about a hundred quid soon getting loads of mine printed and albumed up. Wouldn't want to miss them.

Another Andrew | 17.05.06 - 12:35 a.m. | #

Oh what nostalgia! You sure touched a chord.
My Dad too was an amateur photographer, only he went one stage better. He had a dark-room and processed those holiday snaps on the day we returned from those holidays.
I have hundreds of B & W photos from the 50's & 60's curling up in a box. Every winter for the last 40 years I've been meaning to sort & file them.

Geoffs Mum | 17.05.06 - 11:08 a.m. | #

OOh geoffs mum Thanks for reminding me of that suitcse full of negs and prints slides and i think a few glass negs from my old wooden Sanderson 1/4 plate I really must get round to looking at them SOMETIME

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