Where do pictures go to die?
Before the age of digital cameras it was likely a shoe box filled with dusty negatives on the top shelf of your mother’s closet. There they sat, just hoping someday someone would sift through them, looking for that picture of Uncle Pat shooting milk out his nose at the family reunion. Today, forgotten Kodak moments suffer an even worse fate because those behind the lens don’t realize their options.
Unlike their film brothers and sisters, digital negatives don’t sit in shoeboxes. Most likely they take up space in some random folder on your hard drive, or worse yet stay on the already-full camera memory card, waiting their turn to be deleted and replaced by another doomed snap shot.
Most digital negatives will only be viewed on the inch-high screen on the back of the camera. They will be squinted at and told how good they look even though postage stamps have more detail.
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