You are of course missing the point. People who took their film to the drug store were making an effort to get their film developed and printed and put into an album as part of their artistic _expression_. First they created in their cameras, waited a reasonably long time to get the film developed and printed and then bought an album to display their memories. A whole subindustry existed for the pure and simple reason of displaying the mostly small machine made b/w prints. My great grandfather left an album with many contact prints taken with hi Brownie Currently anybody turns on their phone, looks at the screen no matter how blurry it is, pushes a button and that’s the end of their involvement with the creative process. No matter how terrible a quality the picture is, they let the phone do the rest. Allegedly less than 1% does anything else with either stills of videos. Various estimates place the percentage of digital pictures taken to those taken further as “output” at 99.9% to 0.1%. People mostly look at heir ‘creations’ on the phone’s screen and never make a print. Most iPhone users store an average of 400-5000 images in their phones because they have no idea how to transfer them to an output device. A High percentage is said not to be able to get them to FB or FLickr any other way than wireless. Making a print is not a skill which transferred with the advent of the iPhone. Steve Jobs wasn’t interested in selling prints. While it is apparent that Epson sold about 1.3 million 7x000 series printers in ten years, those printers were mostly sold to the greater number of DSLR owners with the intention of making prints and selling them (for example) at the mall on weekends. Now that the market is flooded, it is evident that the only concerns making a good income on the sale of consumables, is Epson. Wiki has an interesting article on how Kodak and others catered to “photographers” during the film age beginning in 1900. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera) JAn On Sep 23, 2012, at 7:55 PM, YGelmanPhoto wrote:
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