Whilst the ease, simplicity and relative cheapness of digital photo prints have all conspired to make the analogue alternative look anachronistic in the extreme, the main advantage of the leap forward in technology lies elsewhere. Not only can your images now be printed time and again and be perfect every time, but they can also be used on Mother's day as the basis of stunning gifts for Mum.
Before the widespread take-up of digital photography, the process of photo developing was one which placed a severe limit upon the number of pictures which anyone felt able to take. Not only was the roll of film itself limited to a number of shots such as twenty four or thirty six, but once it was full it would have to be carefully removed from the camera and then passed onto others for the actual work to be done. Given the fragile nature of the celluloid film itself and the specialist equipment and skills needed, only a tiny minority of the population were ever able to undertake the process themselves, meaning that the film had to be handed over to a specialist high street laboratory or sent away in the post.
Before the widespread take-up of digital photography, the process of photo developing was one which placed a severe limit upon the number of pictures which anyone felt able to take. Not only was the roll of film itself limited to a number of shots such as twenty four or thirty six, but once it was full it would have to be carefully removed from the camera and then passed onto others for the actual work to be done. Given the fragile nature of the celluloid film itself and the specialist equipment and skills needed, only a tiny minority of the population were ever able to undertake the process themselves, meaning that the film had to be handed over to a specialist high street laboratory or sent away in the post.