Who else doesn't print anymore?

[NikonFmount]

About 4 years ago l stopped getting prints made. IMO, I think images, especially night ones like posted below, look much better viewed on a monitor than on paper. And if l want to show pictures to others away from the desktop, l just load them into my phone.

 

[alcelc]

I keep on printing hard copies, but 99% less than my early digital photography life, when I printed nearly every shot as I did on shooting with film.

 

[sybersitizen]

... I think images, especially night ones like posted below, look much better viewed on a monitor than on paper.

Depends. It's still nice to have some things on the wall. I rarely order prints these days, but it happens. Actually, just last night I ordered a 20" by 30" print for the first time ever.

And if l want to show pictures to others away from the desktop, l just load them into my phone.

That's just about the last resort I'd use, but whatever works for you is fine.

 

[Chris Wolfgram]

About 4 years ago l stopped getting prints made. IMO, I think images, especially night ones like posted below, look much better viewed on a monitor than on paper. And if l want to show pictures to others away from the desktop, l just load them into my phone.

Well I haven't printed on paper for years. Wait, the exception, was a few paper prints I had done, to be mounted to wood and covered in acrylic.

I do nothing but aluminum prints, and those are too expensive to do randomly. I do want to do a few aluminum prints from my new camera though. Just haven't gotten around to choosing one, and going for it.

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[skyglider]

Since my dear wife doesn't use computers and wants prints, I used to send all of the keepers from special events and vacation trips to Costco or Walgreens to have 4x6 inch prints made. Printed the few that we wanted larger in 5x7 or 8x10 myself.

But since covid hit, we stopped attending special events and have not gone on vacation trips so that printing has stopped. Now my printing is limited to occasional gift cards that I make using the Hallmark Card Studio.

Sky

 

[Leonard Migliore]

I don't print much any more because I don't take many good pictures any more. But if I ever do shoot something worthwhile, I'll make some big blowups.

 

[alcelc]

Can you download the photos onto a thumb drive, or USB external hard disk,cand plug into your TV to view them?

 

[Bob A L]

Still get a few hundred prints a year here. Albums are so nice to share with family as opposed to gathering around a screen.

 

[NikonFmount]

Can you download the photos onto a thumb drive, or USB external hard disk,cand plug into your TV to view them?

Yes

 

[skyglider]

Can you download the photos onto a thumb drive, or USB external hard disk,cand plug into your TV to view them?

Yes and I've shown vacation pics to my dear wife on the TV.

She still wanted 6x4 prints of special events or vacations so she could pick select ones to show to her friends when they went out to lunch (pre covid). That included pics that my wife took as well. They all enjoyed the pics as a topic of conversation at lunch. She also wanted 5x7 or 8x10 of a few choice prints of her family or friends that she could give to them.

I am my dear wife's personal photographer and print supplier .... .

 

[Redhenry]

I like 7x5 inch prints - big enough to see detail but not too big to paste into an album. I’ve been printing more of these since I got my iPhone 13 Pro, as the dynamic range and colour reproduction from the heif files make the prints bright and crisp.

 

[davidwien]

The number of prints I have had made of my digital photos since c. 2002 is about 10.

I used to have more of my analog photos printed (everything 6x4 and some 12x8 or whatever the sizes were); but the development of the internet has saved me a lot of money, and I cant recall when I last had a photo printed!

David

 

[RedFox88]

I like 7x5 inch prints - big enough to see detail but not too big to paste into an album. I’ve been printing more of these since I got my iPhone 13 Pro, as the dynamic range and colour reproduction from the heif files

heif are higher compressed jpg. You can set your phone to the better jpg

make the prints bright and crisp.

 

[Kofla Olivieri]

I used to print my favorite pictures to decorate my office wall, and rotate them when I took new images. Biggest print was a 20x30. Since I retired last August, no mas prints for me.

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[Redhenry]

I like 7x5 inch prints - big enough to see detail but not too big to paste into an album. I’ve been printing more of these since I got my iPhone 13 Pro, as the dynamic range and colour reproduction from the heif files

heif are higher compressed jpg. You can set your phone to the better jpg

make the prints bright and crisp.

I like the heif pictures but haven’t tried doing jpegs yet. Will have a go this week, thanks, but I do like the smaller files which the heifs produce.

 

[BertIverson]

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[Bob A L]

I settled in on jpeg early on. Originally as one of my computers balked at the heif and then I decided I imagined a difference in photos preferring the jpeg, but have no basis to state that as fact. Tried to convince myself skin tones looked better, but likely just my imagination.

 

[Bob A L]

No comparison to prints.

 

[Bob A L]

Easy to do, but nothing like having prints or an album that people can share and pass around to view at their own pace compared to gathering around a screen to view at the same pace for everybody.

 

[lost alaskan]

I don't print much, but I have decided that I am going to start printing bigger. I have a dozen 5x7 and 8x11's on the walls and they look good. Nice crisp shots of various things. But I have some moody night and storm shots that even at 8x11 just 'don't get the point across' from ten feet away.