The Evilness of Digital Photography

I can’t remember the last time I used a “regular” film camera and I’m not alone. The world switched from film photography to digital a long time ago. It’s mostly a good thing as digital photos can be taken without having to have them printed. So, they don’t use paper when they’re not printed out and they don’t cost anything to take if they’re not developed into prints. In these ways, digital photos help the environment and the budget. Bhat’s where a positive can become a negative. People now take way too many photos. They’re free so why not? The need for judicious use of film no longer exists.

As an amateur photographer, I do like the fact that I can act like a pro and take thousands of pictures on a trip so that I know a few hundred will turn out good. But what is annoying is how many moments get captured by the numerous digital cameras that your friends and family have. I really feel sorry for children born after the dawn of the digital camera, (and the camcorder for that matter). Many of us lucked out.

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Add to the digital photo phenomena, the fact that photo-taking capability is often provided on other non-camera devices like phones, PDA’s, and you have a recipe for disaster. We will all have countless digital skeletons on our hard drives and memory cards. But even worse, these digital photos are easily copied and sent or posted electronically for all the world to see. In the “old days,” duplication of film photographs required money and effort.

Despite all the evilness, digital photography has allowed us to capture memories better. And pictures can be altered with software to look better. But I’m afraid we’ll all become inundated with countless pictures that never get organized or viewed again. Now there’s no looking back. Digital photography is here to stay, and it is as evil as ever.

+ Atul

Comments

[chancelucky]

one of the odd things is that I have all these digital photos but I forget to put them in a single directory..For all intents and purposed, they're lost.

I would mention that one good thing about digital photos is that the colors don't fade.

[Atul]

I would have thought that you put all the pictures in one folder. Digging through all your photos could be fun. What I do is make a folder for each time I download a lot of pictures from the camera and label it with at least a month and year.

The part about digital photos staying perfect is very true, (as long as the files are backed up on a separate hard drive).

[Deneen Caston]

Digital cameras are evil because people can upload your pictures on the internet. Also, they can show people your pictures without consent. They can also sell your pictures.

[UH2L]

Deneen,

Yes, I mentioned that a bit, but I didn't emphasize how evil uploading can be. It can ruin careers and relationships but it can also make people money in a not-so-nice way.

[Jenna Peace]

I must add that i am so glad digital cameras were NOT around when i was little. All of my cousins and nieces are forced to take so many pictures. Many of them are good, some hilarious and others just bad. I am so glad that my mother does not have pictures like that of me. I would be so embarrassed for someone special to see me in my tie-die jumper at four years old.
I agree with all of you saying it is scary getting your pictures stolen. I had that happen to a friend once on myspace. She found her pictures on someone's myspace profile who was pretending to be her. She could not even get the person to take them down. It was a bad situation. It is crazy to think that anyone in the world could have personal pictures of you.

[UH2L]

Jenna,

Yes, I've thought about that before too. I'm glad that every little thing I did isn't on video or photo since digital cameras weren't around when I grew up. And getting pictures stolen would be horrible. All it takes is a stolen/lost laptop. Real paper pictures are much harder to duplicate and spread around.