Are real photo albums a thing of the past?

hi there, As you've said there's no need to develop pictures as we can share it to friends online. I have stored all our photos in every event or even the daily keepsake photos of my son in my laptop other than the albums I've posted from friendster and facebook. But of course I also have a specially made photo album of my son actually from gestation (ultrasounds) to birth and the monthly shots as we celebrate his birthday. I've made it handy for us to reminisce his childhood development and in a way to tell him of our great love and gratefulness that he really is the most precious gift we ever had. I adore him, my one and only son...thanks god for the blessings!

I store my pics in computer . That's more safe

It is a long time since we made photo albums last. Thanks to the use of digital cameras, we deposit pictures in our computer and seldom have photos developed. But recently we are required to develop some photos of our baby son's by his teachers in the kindergarten. When my baby son's photos are developed, they are required to stick in the school's handbook for the child as a way of recording their growth each month. So we are doing this according to the teachers' instructions. Take care.

I have a photo album of some old film photos and I am in the process of scanning them in so I have a digital back up of the photo. Then I upload them to an online photo album. I would like to still have an album or two. I will not print out every pictures because I have way too many and would probably have about 20 or 25 albums if not more!

We still have photo studio which takes film type photos for us. But most of them are digital type. At times I still look through my old photo albums. It brings back good memories. Today I just burn these digital photos into VCDs and stack them into albums.

Hi doryvien, me, i still keep pictures in photo albums. I see to it that most of our pictures taken by digital camera are developed and kept in my album. Though it is copied in the computer already, it is still nice to have an album so i can keep them longer. Storing pictures in computers,is hi-tech but it might not be safe also because these can be corrupted if something happens to the computer. I can tell yet which of the two ways of keeping pictures last longer but i prefer having an album of pictures.

How very true! Digital cameras are a short cut to instant gratification…I remember the days of breathless waiting when the film roll would come from the photographers after being developed…what fun it was to go thru the pixes together, specially of a just concluded family vacation. I too miss those days, however I feel that albums were way better than this CD storage…holding an actual photo in your hands is a completely different feeling than just browsing them on the screen.

doryvien, Being an avid photographer myself from the conventional negative film strips right to the current digital, I have a collection of both the photographs and negative filmstrips. However, since the emergence of digital age, I have digitize much of my collections including my collection of negative strips by scanning them into my computer and burning my favorites onto a CD or DVD. Like you, since the arrival of digital camera, digital photography has given me more ways to collect, share and exhibit my works. I like the instant previews, corrections and lesser prints especially when another party wants to have the photos as well.

I have plans to scan all the photos and place them onto a c.d. so that I can keep them in one spot. If I have to move any where, I can destroy the original photos, move and reprint them when I do get to my destination. At least this way, having the photos on a c.d. would save alot of room. The only photos that I would be keeping are the ones that cost me alot for.

i used to enjoy making scrapbooks and making colorful photo albums but since we had a digital camera, i saved all my pictures in a cd since it occupied less space.

Most of my photos are in my computer but I plan to have them developed and placed in an album too. Photo albums are still great when you whenever you want to reminiscence about the old days especially when you become too old to use the computer. Just make sure to use quality albums to preserve the pictures well enough for your grandchildren to see. It will make a great bonding moment to pass them around during family reunions.

I love taking pictures,..i love, looking back at them and watch the flashbacks in my mind of all the wonderful memories, behind those pictures, that's why I and my family still developed pictures from the digital cameras and even in cellphones with camera and compile it in a photo album and also save it our computer desktop, it is for multiple purposes.in essence, because not every one knows how to use the modern technology, still they have this manual and practical way to go back in time with the photo albums in every time they want. we also upload the same pictures in the computer for safety purposes, that it may not fade by the passage of time, and that our relatives abroad can be updated through sending and viewing of pictures with the usage of computer and other technology. I also developed pictures, because i post them in my scrapbooks,and upload them for editing and adding of details through the computer.

it's a good question. i used to develop photos and put them to albums,but now i always save photos on my computers.sometimes i also wonder whether high technology does us a favor or not.yes,with digital cameras,we can make photos fast and convinient.however,it makes us lazy to change them to really photo albums.what if our computers have something wrong or being attacked by virus?and esp for our relatives who could not handle computers well,they have little chance to see our new photos.so,in my opinion,it is safe to change photos to real ones and keep them carefully.

Lately too I had been looking to our old photo album and it's nice to reminisce those times like it was just yesterday..True, with the advance in technology, life is becoming easier for most of us, and as things are continually developed to make our life easier, we forgot some part of our human touch, to share moments and capture it forever. Most of us now prefer digital photos and store it on memory drives, sometimes failing to look at some of those moments..Honestly, I am one of those who take pictures and just scan those on my digital camera and later saved it on my hard disk..I have an idea anyway, I make a digital slideshow with a nice background music to be played on television. In that case, I can browse on it later to cherish those moments..