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December 30, 2011
Strange But True!
Q. What have digital cameras and digital photography rendered obsolete?
A. Film and scrapbooks and albums and the whole reason why we used to take pictures, answers Tekla Perry in IEEE Spectrum magazine. Photographs used to be for capturing special moments as we documented our life history; today's digital images are free and easy and can be instantly distributed, now often communicating the ordinary with less forethought than a phone call.
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