If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep them in albums?

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

If the pictures are of a special occasion that I will want to show to others without a means of viewing them on a monitor, I will print them and put them in an album.

However, the nice thing about digital is the ability to shoot a lot of pictures without having the expense of developing the whole roll of film. I only print a fraction of the pics I take.

HTH,

Dan

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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I seem to remember a recent survey that showed that over 90% of the people who shoot digital never (or almost never) make prints.

I started making thumbnail print pages of my pics. I quit. I've got over 20,000 pics - digital and scanned in slides from my film years.

Looking at them on the screen is just too convenient.

One significant advantage of digital photography over film is that there is no need to print each photograph. Instead, they can be saved on a CD or hard drive and be viewed in slide-show fashion with any number of programs sold for that purpose. Prints will thus be rarely made except for special purposes. I just returned form Spain and Portugal a few days ago with more than 1500 photos stored on CDs. How much would that have cost for film and prints—a lot for sure. As TVs gain higher resolution and devices become available for viewing digital photos on TV, it is likely that paper prints will become quite rare for most people.

Rodger

I'm not on of those pros here but I can only say that it all depends of what the pictures are about. For party's or something I dont print except the pics people would like to have after seeing them. For holidays etc I do print but I make a collage like the following one and print this out in A4 size to put in an album. I still think that for showing and sharing this is still the nicest way or you should have a projector to give a slideshow. But even then an album of your holiday is always nice.



--SlipStreamMy homepage http://users.skynet.be/slipstream/

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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Alot of my digital photos I do not print. I only print my very best photos either for album or to frame and hang on the wall. I will make a small 4x6 album of about 24 prints of special events like a balloon festival or a renasaince festival or maybe a best of nature and wildlife album or a colors of fall or a vacation album. I print these to be able to show people at work after an event or to show my best work.

People like looking at real prints and more people are sold on the digital camera idea after seeing the quality of prints.

I used to use my Epson printer for most of my prints but since I tried Walmart.com I now use there professional service. 4x6's are .26 cents each and I don't have to pay shipping cause they send them to my local Walmart. I know these prints will last a lifetime as they're printed on Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper using a traditional silver process. The quality is fantastic and they look and feel just like 35mm prints.

It's also nice to display my very best photos framed and matted on the walls of my home.

The nice thing about digital is that you can only print the best ones that you really like...Bob --'It's easier to wear slippers than to try and carpet the whole world'

I just ordered the fuji finepix 2800 after seeing many people's photos taken with it and I DO plan on printing the best of my photos at Ofoto.com I scrapbook for my girls when they get older and this way I can crop and enlarge before they are even printed...
Amy-- http://www.glowingdesigns.com

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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I print only the ones I want to put in picture frames and the rest I keep on my hard drive until I burn them to CD-R.

cnc137.--Dreamcast :: GameCube :: PlayStation 2 :: Xbox http://www.DreamStation.cc

Be sure and store your images on CDs so that you will be able to duplicate them anytime in the future after the original prints have become old and faded.

Rodger

My wife is Japanese and her parents wanted a CD of all the pictures I took of the grandkids. Those pictures were all intermixed with other pictures I took so i sent them a CD with everthing and let them sort it out. They didn't even look at the CD. Rather they had the whole thing printed out. I don't know what they were thinking, but there must have been over 1500 pictures that they printed. They ended up with a 1 cubic foot cardboard box full. I myself have only had a couple proffesionaly printed.

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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I print the one's I really like mostly for framing and also for photo gifts to family and friends.

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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Only the very best shots. Maybe 1 out of 50, to frame, not put in albums. I put the shots I like in my screensaver so my photo album is always popping up for me and others to view.
I archive the photos on CD's
Best Regards,
--Owen S. http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292271211

Thanks for sharing your experience and opinions about digital camera!

Your feedbacks are really helpful for my homework.

Owen S. said:

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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I have 11X14's in my office, use photos for wallpaper on my computer at home and in my office, have numerous 8X10's of family members in a rogue's gallery in the basement and my immediate family in my office.

If I shoot an event like soccer, I will take over 100 shots, edit them down to 20 or so and maybe print 5 or 6, and a few extra to pass out when I take pity on those parents who don't have a super zoom digital camera.
After a second round of editing, I save what's left on a CD-RW.--MVittands

The reason to print is to provide more resolution than the screen can handle. I print for framing and for photo albums. I use a WebWay sleeve based album that accepts 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheets directly. I also do slide shows on the screen, and plan to burn CDs for getting slide shows to other people.

If you don't need to print, or if you only need small prints, then the number of pixels you need is reduced. Of course, scaling down from a larger CCD will generally produce a better image than a smaller CCD.
--
Peter Epstein--Peter Epstein

windflower said:

This is my homework about album. I do appreciate if you reply the
question. Thanks in advance!

If you have a digital camera, will you print the pictures and keep
them in albums? Or just keep them in storage?

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I think looking at digital photos on your monitor, and prints in an album, are two different things.

I like to look at my photo albums, but I use my SLR or compact camera to make the prints. For using the monitor, the digital camera is better, mainly because scanning prints is such a time consuming pain.--Andrew (in Taiwan)C-2100UZ photos atwww.pbase.com/andrew_aes