Ahhhhh! What a nightmare! I'm only 30 but even now I'm saying things like 'I remember the days when' and reminiscing about the £35 film camera's I used to buy whose final picture quality still exceeds the £400 digital cameras on sale now. It's all about convenience really. With a digital camera you can see the picture you've taken to know if you got a good one. You can delete photos rather than have to pay to print them out. You can go home and print the photos out directly, many even plug into the cigarette lighter socket in your car! Does the number of advantages exceed the downsides? For example, having them on film pushed us to have to print out the photos to see them and then we had a permanent copy to look back on. Everyone I spoke to whilst creating this section admitting to having not just one, but several flash memory cards stuffed in a drawer somewhere with dozens of photos just waiting to be printed. Don't listen to the salesman who says that you can save money by just plugging your camera into your computer and printing them off on a standard printer - you will never take the time to do it and the longer you leave it, the more of a task it becomes. Get a custom one-touch printer that your camera plugs straight into or at the very least a high quality printer with flash drive sockets, a digital display and it's own 6x4 photo paper drawer. Otherwise, like the rest of us, you'll never look at the pictures you've taken ever again except for the one of your dog chasing it's tail that you have as a screensaver.
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