29th June 2007, 10:35 AM
I think Anna is right. The other problem with digital photography is the ease with which images that are deemed 'wrong' or not relevant are simply deleted to make space on the memory card. From a historical perspective, those pictures often reveal other aspects of society that the photographer hadn't originally intended to capture. When we delete them, we may delete something that later proves to be valuable because the photo will be analysed in a different context. I'm not talking about the blurred, "I dropped the camera in a puddle" pics, of course...