Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

[stockportyears]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

What about video cameras?
There's something about Super 8 that is so evocative of a time gone by. I loved that programme that was on a couple of months back, finding people's old Super 8 films from years ago.
Even 80s and 90s video tape quality has something of those times about it, but nowadays anyone can take a video on their phone and it's no longer special.

[Richard1978]

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It's odd that some pictures my parents took years ago have faded with an orange tint, while others taken at almost the same time still look like the were taken yesterday.

Some of those companies that used to put envelopes in the papers to send off your films must have done things on the cheap.

My parents have occasionally had their digital photos printed, but mostly fill up a CD-ROM so they had be viewed via a DVD player.

[Trickyvee]

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It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

[Grosh62]

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I'm a big fan of getting my pictures printed up still.
I have countless albums full of my kids lives so far.
Hopefully the clothes they are wearing,toys they are playing with, the way the home is decorated will help tell the tale.
Things move on so quickly who knows what else will develop??
we may in 10 years time be saying cor look at those old fashined Digital photo's they are 'so Naughties'

You may be right Huggie, The future may have Holographic photos in which case todays will be very dated.

[Heather74]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

I'm a big fan of getting my pictures printed up still. I have countless albums full of my kids lives so far.
Hopefully the clothes they are wearing,toys they are playing with, the way the home is decorated will help tell the tale.
Things move on so quickly who knows what else will develop??
we may in 10 years time be saying cor look at those old fashined Digital photo's they are 'so Naughties'

[Grosh62]

Looking at my chemically and sun faded photos from the 70s, it struck me that Digital photography may well ruin the faded quality of future nostalgia. How boring it would be if we had Victorian pictures that looked like they were taken yesterday because there was no picture deterioration over the years. Well that is what the future holds for us as we eventually look back to the Naughties and beyond. Someone should invent software that naturally ages digital photos (not the Photoshop filters that already exist)..

Or is it just me that actually enjoys the aesthetic quality of aged photographs..?