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'Loading your camera with film is almost a thing of the past. But, says Joanna Wane, the digital revolution is creating a gaping hole in our heritage.'
Snap unhappy - digital photography's dirty little secret argues that the rise in digital photography has serious implications for our 'pictorial history'.
'Few of the images taken on digital cameras are ever printed out, which means many are permanently lost when the file is deleted or damaged. Even if prints are made, the cheaper commercial models currently used for family snapshots reproduce at significantly lower quality and have less depth than film, especially when enlarged.
Imagine, for example, the exhilarated couple who snap off some shots on their mobile phone to announce the arrival of their newborn baby to the world within minutes of his birth. Later, when they're looking for pictures to frame or save in an album, they'll be caught short if that low-resolution mobile-phone image is all they have.
At the professional level, the more critical problem is digital storage. The fear is that as technology evolves, any storage medium in use today will eventually become obsolete and the material it holds lost to future generations.'
Will we one day look back on the early years of this century and ask 'where are all the pictures?'
Posted by Darren in our News category on April 25, 2004