There's an interesting article by reporter Don Mayhew on today's Life cover about new ways to display photos with the rising popularity of digital cameras.
I got my digital camera while I was pregnant with my baby, four years ago. Although I had once considered photography as a possible career choice, for years I had practically stopped taking pictures, or at least stopped getting film developed. Storing and cataloging all those prints had become such an expense and a chore. Images from probably 15 years of my life were un-scrapbooked, stuffed in boxes, in no kind of order. (Really, that's where all those old photos still are.)
I knew that with a baby -- my first -- I wouldn't be happy with that kind of picture taking.
In the past four years, all of that has changed. I know I'm taking more pictures -- probably more than 4,000 since I got my digital camera. I don't print out all of them, but I do something with the ones I choose to print out. Framed images of our baby and the rest of our family decorate our house and my office, and I've put together several photo albums since I started shooting with enthusiasm again. And if we have company over, it's so quick and easy to show them a quick slideshow of recent photos.
I love that I can delete the really bad or out-of-focus pictures before ever downloading them onto my hard drive. The only cost is that of actually printing the ones I want to print. Since my brother gave me a 1-gig memory card last year for my birthday, my little 3.1-megapixel camera can hold more than 800 images. The only thing holding me back is the life of my batteries. It's not uncommon for me to shoot more than 100 images at an afternoon event.
What do you do with your digital images? Do you print them, display them, carry them on a high-tech key chain? Do you take more or fewer pictures since converting to digital? And are you happier with the images you capture?
Smile! You're on (digital) camera
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I have a digital camera, but don't use it as often as I expected to when I got it. I like being able to view the pictures immediately, and the ease of emailing them to friends and family. The zoom feature is nice, too.
What I don't like are the steps I have to go through to download them onto my computer, and the time lag between when I push the button and when the camera takes the picture. My kids rarely hold still long enough to get a decent shot. I took the camera to our son's Kindergarten graduation, and not one image turned out well.
Maybe I need a better camera?
I love my digital camera. I download to iPhoto on my Mac. i have 5,000 photos in just two years. I send them to others and print a few. We took grandchildren to an intergenerational event and made up a book of them of printed pictures. It is a great thing, and so low-cost once you have a computer.
I find myself shooting more and actually developing/printing more now that I have a prewiew of what's to come. I think photos always make a fantastic gift, for any reason or no reason at all.