Living with Digital Imaging frequently asked questions Living with Digital Imaging Digital Camera FAQ Digital Photography FAQ PC or Paper Digital imaging creates an ongoing movement away from paper. Trying to treat digital photography the same as conventional photography is doomed to disappointment.
Image prints either at home or in photographic laboratories are simply too expensive.
Most of the images from digital cameras will stay digital for their entire lifespan. Born of a digital camera, growing up on a PC, spending their old age on a cd-rom and occasionally being reassembled from bits onto a PC display. This true-color check requires IE5 or Netscape 4 to display PNG images. The electronic world is providing more and more options every day. The image has to be practically destroyed with size reductions and JPG compression to get it down to around 20Kb for transmission over the Internet.