Do you still print hard-copy photos?
By squaretile
@squaretile (3778)
Singapore
January 11, 2010 3:41am CST
Now that we are in the digital age, most people have digital cameras and store their photos in their computers digitally and share them electronically over email or through sites like flickr and facebook.
Do you still print out photos? What do you do with them?
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@much2say (56970)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Jan 10
Oh yes, we do still print out photos. We actually got one of those digital photo printers for my parents. They don't have a computer and neither does most of their family in their generation . . . so they need to print and snail mail photos to everything. I don't think they even want to take their memory card to a place to print because they're not "technical" that way . . . so that's why we bought the printer for their home use. And then we go over their and print some of our pics - hee hee. Like my parents, we need to give photos to certain people who are "technologically challenged" - like my husband's parents. Mother in law likes to cut them up and make her own scrapbook. We've need photos for my daughter's class project. My husband wanted a few to put in a frame for the office. So, there still are uses for hard copy photos - but certainly we don't have to do it as much as we did long ago.
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@much2say (56970)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Feb 10
Thanks for BR, squaretile!
Since this discussion, we made some prints of the baby to send to our friend's mom in Hawaii. She sent us a cash gift, so we thought it only right to send her a thank you card with some photos in it (rather than emailing a thanks). So even though hard copy prints may be dying out, there's always a use for them!
@None49 (33)
• Brunei Darussalam
11 Jan 10
Yes, because the hard-copies can be stored at safer place rather than in the electronic devices like mobile phone and computer. If your computer or mobile phone is broken or harmed by viruses, most probably the data stored inside it will be deleted or corrupted. For me, I keep the hard-copy inside the album, so the photos can be reviewed when I got time.
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
11 Jan 10
Well there is unfortunately a flip side too. A friend of mine, she got her house ravished by a tsunami... unfortunately she only had hard copies of those photos and they couldn't be recovered... all the fond memories gone...
So I guess if something is really important to you and you want to look at the photos, have both soft and hard copies. But try to *not* load the soft copies online where it becomes more public than you want. Store it on an external hard disk perhaps and lock it up with a strong password. 
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@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
12 Jan 10
It's been a long long time, since i last printed out any hard copies of photos.. haha =D As i'm not really into photography, thus i wont have much to share as well.. hehe ^_^
And even for photos i took with my camera photo, i will still print it out for my scrapbook purpose, and that was the only once.. Since then, it's been 3 years since i last printed anything?? haha
@jakie18 (233)
• Philippines
11 Jan 10
I still print photos because especially if the event is remarkable and important.I also have soft copy of them on my hard drive.I love scrap-booking and I used them to add details on my scrapbook.I also framed some so that I can hang them on my wall and put them on m table.I even have some photos printed on mugs and tumblers even on plates.I love collecting pictures because it refreshes my memories of the past.
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
11 Jan 10
Not me.
Then again, I very seldom take photos. Yes I know it is no "excuse" since we all pretty much have cameras inside our mobiles phones but... what's there to take picture of?
Only for special occasions like celebrating birthdays would I perhaps suggest a photo taking. Then I just keep the photos for myself.
I don't have them printed into hard copies since there are not like many. I don't like having albums and albums of them... do you know I once found cockroach eggs on those albums thinking they were long-forgotten chocolate remnants? Yucks!
@nocturn98 (956)
• Venezuela
11 Jan 10
I still print pictures. There are some great pictures that deserves to be framed. I usually print family pictures, reunions, special occasions... things like that.
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