What Will The Future Mean To Digital Photographers?
This is probably one of the most important questions. What we do know, is that the digital age is requiring a scale of digital storage beyond expectations. I would guess about 90% of most images are not printed, but are stored locally on a computer, or online with a particular service. Because digital photography is inherently so easy, and the amount of images stored is only limited to the media card capacity you have, the average digital consumer is finding out his hard drive contains mostly images! And add to the fact media cards are at their lowest prices ever due to a stagnation of media purchases in general, and you have a catalyst for larger storage needs. Digital cameras and their file sizes are also increasing very quickly due to new models supporting higher megapixel resolutions. The average digital camera has around 6-8MP these days. A 6MP digital, non-DSLR, is around $300-$400. 8MP cameras are still a little expensive, averaging around $700 and up. However, the camera manufa
