"Yes, this will be the most photo documented generation in recent history. I grew up in the 70s, and my first camera was a Kodak 110 instamatic that took crappy pictures. And if I wanted flash, I had to buy a disposable flash bar that contained 5 or 6 flashes. And you had to ration your pictures because you had only 12 or 24 shots in the roll, and then wait a week to have it developed."
Valid views, very much is now-a-days documentated.
However, the pictures we sometimes took with film cameras, like Kodak 110 or similar cameras, those pictures often still exist, as prints and many times also as developed film. Pictures taken later with all kind of digital cameras generally also still exist, i.e on hard discs as jpg files, or on other devices, and also many times as prints.
OTOH, are the pictures taken with camera phones much saved elsewhere than in the phone itself, and/or are those pictures printed? Although I haven't myself seen anybody save phone shots, I'm sure some do it. And sure, some upload their personal photographs somewhere, but to where, and how to achieve/find these pictures after 50 years, 30 years or even 10 years? Probably nothing is left/or can be found in some tens of years. The phones of today aren't either known to be long lived, so non saved pictures will disappear in a few years when the phone break down.
"If we only had cell phone cameras back in the day. All those memories that could have been preserved....."
Or possibly almost nothing might be left, see above ?? It is a paradox, but I have a strong feeling that there will be very very little phone pictures left for the coming generations to look at, even if the current generation is the most (phone-)photo documented generation :-( :-(
JahnG
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