Losing interest

[Dr Jekyll]

I'm relatively new to digital cameras, still using film until about 5 years ago. But lately I've found that I'll take pictures of some interesting scene, then get home and find I can't be bothered to load them into the PC. I can see roughly how good they are from the screen on the camera, and if I really want to see something on my laptop screen I can always find an image through Google. So I end up not bothering to load them up, then not bothering to take pictures in the first place.

It's partly just not having prints to look at I think, a print felt like a tangible souvenir. The cycle of waiting for them to be processed, being initially disappointed because the images didn't have the impact you'd imagined, then realizing some were actually quite decent and knowing how to improve next time was much of the fun. Obviously I can get prints of digital images but it seems a bit artificial and pointless.

Has anyone else found this?

[Dr Jekyll]

covboy said:

Slightly OT but how many people remember Victor Blackman, the Express (I think) photographer who did a column in Amateur Photographer. I remember when digital was in it's (very) early stages and he'd seen an example "It'll never catch on- Grain as big as golfballs" was his comment. Wonder where he'd stand now ?

I distinctly remember VB predicting the rise of the digital camera back in the early 80s. His view was that video cameras stored images electronically so why on earth couldn't still cameras. That sounds more like a comment on a specific early digital camera than on the concept.

[Dr Jekyll]

Interesting idea.

I remember once someone suggested that if you are walking around a strange town and can't see anything worth photographing just try looking at one street, if that doesn't work one building. I think there's something in that.