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It's been revealed that developing and printing photos has been removed from the UK government's basket of products and services that are monitored for cost and so form the country's official inflation figures. One of the incoming product categories is tablet computers.
According to various sources we take more photos than ever before - in fact most tablet computers can take photos with their integrated cameras, along with smartphones, webcams, laptops, helmet cams, and - oh yes, plain old cameras.
Naturally, film is in steep decline, but the overriding problem is that we can't be bothered to print our photos any more. We're content to email them or post them to twitter and facebook. Online galleries are very popular of course. We have [URL="http://dpnow.com/galleries"]our own here[/URL], and of course there are huge photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Smugmug, Picasa, and many more.
I'm as guilty as the next person - I don't print as much as I used to despite having a superb Epson Stylus Pro 3800 just to the right of me as I type this. But I did do some prints last week and I have to say that the results really added a completely new dimension to what the shot appeared like on-screen.
There is nothing to compare a well-done photographic print, and let's not forget it!
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Ian started a blog post Sign of the times? Developing and printing out of the UK inflation basketSign of the times? Developing and printing out of the UK inflation basket
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I take the view that photo isn't a 'proper' photo unless it's a print that can be handled and pondered down through the generations.
My mother-in-law is 92 and she still uses film, has her pics developed via her local Chemist then sends us copies. As a matter of fact we sent her a Pentax Espio this week, along with a few films. She'd broken her previous compact and there's no way she could or would use digital.
I send her regular copies of our own pics directly via Photobox.
Pol