Pros & cons of digital photos

[Jen-Jen]

I take tons of pictures and sometimes I go back into them and I see how many of them are similiar and I get rid of them. Only problem is that I don't always back them up on disc and I tend to have fatal errors on my computer once and a while...I lose everything.

So...after losing the last great crop of pics I now back them up and label it all. Birthdays and Holidays on one disc together. Friend parties and rides (which in my opinion is a great big party) on another.

I do the same thing as other and they get labeled as Christmas Quinlan 2008 and I know that those pics are my side of the family this year.

I hate it when I lose pictures!

[Zen]

We used to take slides only, and would spend aaaaaages getting them printed, mounted, sorted, re-sorted and so on. Ever since we went digital we've never looked back.

I miss not being able to shoot Kodachrome.
I gotta bet my film camera fixed.

What about backing up photo files on a flash drive?
i don't think cd's last forever either, though they'll probably outlast me.

[shootingstar]

(3) Make sure you keep an unedited copy of your images. Each time you crop, re-size or otherwise edit, the software will run a compression algorithm and slightly degrade the quality of your image.

Yes, very important. I learned this the hard way on some photos taken 15 yrs. ago which were digitally scanned..some resolution degraded.

On Zcentury's remark...: I also miss the degree of control for depth, etc. on single reflex lens cameras vs. the digital. I had a Nikon for years which served me well which I added on a bounce flash then a zoom-wide angle lens.

While the "cheapie" digital light small cameras are so convenient ..for recording things that you see..to take serious quality shots....well, NOT looking through the aperture (because of the structural design of cheaper digital cameras) and holding the camera 3 ft. away from your face...does not guarantee proper focus on the right things..