A long poignant article on Film, Digital and Change

It is sad for me to witness the destruction of the mom and pop lab structure as it has existed for decades. We wont know what we had until it is gone. And then we may miss it more dearly than we know.

Redlands Daily Facts - News: "Wormser fears that a lot of history could be lost, because digital photography is not produced and stored like traditional developed film.

'The majority of people who shoot digitally don't even have their photos printed. They're stored on a computers or CDs,' he says. 'Some think they'll print, but then they don't, and when something happens to their computer, or they need space on their disc, they lose their images.

'In the future, you won't be able to pull out a shoe box of grandma's old photos and dig through family history. From the '90s on, history might be lost because it won't be captured on film.'"