Snapshots

[Robert]

Digital photography is great.
Lovely creamy pictures with no grain. I've had 20"x16"colour canvas prints from my 5mp Olympus E1 which look superb.
I snap and snap and don't delete the bad ones, they are all kept on my computer.
Thats the problem, I hardly print anything and on my computer hard drive I have a couple of thousand photos, good, bad and rubbish.
I took Wedding photographs with the E1 and had to make the effort and ordered a couple of photo books. The workflow etc. took many hours but it was worth it.

My wife is now in her element. I am now using my G2 again and getting 37 colour prints which means production of the photo albums is starting again. You see, my wife buys albums and is in her element filling them up.
No neat system nor order but just filling up albums. Forget about quality control, even the worst photo goes into her albums.

I feel excited again after I expose a film and leave it in to get the prints in an envelope or box. Thirty six lovely lustre prints to cherish and also the negatives, to store.

I feel digital photography is here to stay and will get better but film is here and will always be here and the film rangefinder cameras will always excite.
Rangefinder cameras are fun to use and very serious tools.

 

[Nick R.]

Have you tried the online printing services. Here in the states, they're so cheap and easy to use that I'm printing a lot more pictures than I used to. It's so easy to upload and print that I've cleared a couple of years worth of images sitting on my hard drive.

 

[Topdog1]

I have to wonder if printing will continue to be the main way to view pictures. Did you see the announcement at CES of the Kodak wi-fi digital picture frames?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07010701kodakwifipictureframes.asp

/Ira

 

[bsdunek]

I have to wonder if printing will continue to be the main way to view pictures. Did you see the announcement at CES of the Kodak wi-fi digital picture frames?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07010701kodakwifipictureframes.asp

/Ira

I think this will become very popular; especially as the price comes down. I have even seen little ones you can carry in your pocket.

Wall hung prints will probably always be around though.

 

[pvdhaar]

..No neat system nor order but just filling up albums. Forget about quality control, even the worst photo goes into her albums..

Yeah, and after 25 years or so, you'll see them back and they'll show people you've met, places you've been, things you've done..

There is some logic in keeping them all..

 

[IGMeanwell]

I have more and more used the publishing services such as mypublisher and shutterfly

I have moved to shutterfly as mypublisher's quality varied too much

that being said for some reason people just love flipping through books, just for christmas I think I made 3 seperate books and one wedding album ... they have gotten nothing but excellent responses

that being said I kind of like the idea of a digital frame with a slideshow of images (for myself)... just not until they are bit less expensive

Also those little HP 4x6 and 5x7 printers work great for filling scrapbooks and albums