[Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Yikes, Nathan, you used to throw out the negatives!?!
I've never ever heard of that before. I worked for a store with photo
processing as a major component back in the 70's for a number of years and
don't recall that ever happening. Back then we had a very good business
providing a same week service and supplying a free replacement film. Times
change. Just imagine all of those irreplaceable memories that went in the
rubbish bin.

Nostalgically Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:13
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap

But is this really that different from the "old days"? I remember back 
in the 70s, during my teenage years (before I took up photography in a 
serious way), when we had a roll of film processed, we would usually 
throw away not only the negatives, but also the prints that had not 
"come out" well--in fact, the latter prints did not even make it out of 
the store, since standard practice was the you only had to pay for the 
"good" prints.

Nathan

G Hopkinson wrote:
> Doug has articulated the most important issue.
> That's the fundamental shift that has happened after capture.
> Family photographers with a little digital P&S may well take a lot of
photos
> at Auntie Mabel's wedding, but may only get prints made of a few.
>
> Print those digital files as well as archive the files.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> Owner of a thousand shoeboxes, most of which are hopelessly muddled.
>
>