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The first digital cameras started gaining popularity in the 1990s when I was almost 40, and camera phones came out around 20 years ago. I've taken lots of digital photos since then and stored them on my laptop. But before then, I took tons photos on film.
I always took a camera when backpacking or vacationing. I have a cabinet full of slides and negatives. Sometimes I used a 110 camera and sometimes a small 35mm. In 1989, I bought a good camera and lens when I went to Europe for a month.
I met my wife in 1994. She's a photographer, among other things. She specialized in portraits but also did very creative things with still lifes, landscapes and architecture. I learned a lot from her. For instance, professional photographers get their film developed by professional photo labs who can do things like dodging and burning, cropping, adjusting exposure, etc., things that amateurs never heard of.
I think she bought her first digital camera shortly after we got married in 1996. But there was controversy among professional photographers back then about the art of photographing with film versus digital. They felt that using film required more skill and produced superior photos.
When my wife learned Photoshop, she transitioned to digital.
All my pictures now are digital. We mostly use phones but also sometimes use our Nikon 5000.
But, yes, back in the "old" days, Id get photographs developed all the time. That was the only way. I personally didn't go digital until the mid 1990s but even then I was using film until the mid 2000s.
Frankly, I miss film. Digital is awesome but there are times when I want film.
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I stopped developing pictures once I got electronic methods to store my images but my mom sometimes makes family photo books with our vacation images. She uses electronic software to make it and the images are laminated and professional book quality.
Digital cameras didn't really become commonplace until I graduated from high school, so all of the pictures I took prior to that were developed, by necessity.
It was the only option, aside from instant Polaroids, back then.
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I used to before digital cameras were invented. I remember my camera auto rewinding then taking it out, putting it into a film canister, then going to Walmart and filling out my information on the film folder packet, putting the canister into the film packet, sealing it and handing it to the film lab and waiting a week. Getting a call the pics are ready. Go down there, finding out if they were good or schitty. If crappy, refuse the bad ones and pay for the good ones 🙂👍
I literally have a suitcase of 35mm negatives of photos from my pre-digital cameras and I still prefer chemical if I'm taking landscapes that need blowing up
Yes the photo on my profile is developed. From the camera. But it is the way it was since it was took. Hasn't been retouched or anything. My boyfriend took it haha
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Digital. My grandma had thousands of regular photos and those I have had digitized, just in case. Also makes sharing them with her friends a lot easier.
