Archive for September, 2007
Interphoto Shanghai 2007: plawa presents AgfaPhoto digital camera
(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.)
Antara (press release), Indonesia
Shanghai, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) – At the Imaging Expo China / Interphoto Shanghai 2007 in Shanghai, plawa will present a new AgfaPhoto digital camera product family with the models DC-8338i, DC-8330i and DC-1338i. The latest-generation CCD sensors with up to 8.0 or 10.0 megapixel resolution guarantee super-brilliant pictures.
The new AgfaPhoto models feature a large three-inch TFT LCD display offering 230,000 pixel for picture preview and playback.
The face-tracking function auto-detects up to three faces and sets the suitable exposure automatically. A digital picture stabilizer removes any natural shaking which in practice is difficult to avoid. Thanks to the versatile 3x zoom lens the subject can be zoomed into easily.
The AgfaPhoto DC-8330i comes in a solid, silver compact housing. The AgfaPhoto DC-8338i and the DC-1338i feature ten megapixel resolution and are presented in a slim black metal housing.
The AgfaPhoto DC-8330i, DC-8338i and DC-1338i will be available from October 2007 at a recommended retail price of 199 to 249 euros (incl. VAT).
From October 26th to September 29th plawa will be displaying their current AgfaPhoto digital cameras at the Imaging Expo China in west hall 1F, stand 1D06.
You can download high-res product pictures, this press release as a Word document as well as a high-res AGFAPHOTO logo at: http://www.panama-pr.de/download/agfaphotoShanghai.zip .
The company:
plawa-feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co.
plawa was founded in 1969 and expanded rapidly as a specialist in slide frames and film rolls and succeeded in becoming a leader. In the year 2000, it entered the sphere of digital photography. Today the company distributes AgfaPhoto digital cameras.
http://www.plawa.com
AgfaPhoto Holding GmbH is licensee of the brand AgfaPhoto by Agfa-Gevaert NV & Co. KG. The exclusive sub-license for digital cameras has been granted to plawa by AgfaPhoto Holding GmbH.
Press Information
Birgit Gotz
Informationsburo plawa
Panama PR GmbH
Eugensplatz 1
70184 Stuttgart – Germany
Tel: +49-711-6647597-11
Fax: +49-711-6647597-30
b.goetz@panama-pr.de
SOURCE plawa-feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co.
/CONTACT: Birgit Gotz, Informationsburo plawa, +49-711-6647597-11, Fax: +49-711-6647597-30, b.goetz@panama-pr.de/
/Web site: http://www.plawa.com /
September 28th, 2007
A Digital Still Camera Built to Accommodate the High-Definition Television Experience
New York Times, United States
For adherents of high-definition technology, everything must be full of crisp detail. PCs, DVRs and TVs can now reproduce images so sharp as to be unflattering. But what if you want to see the latest photos from your digital camera on your big HDTV screen?
For that you will need something like Kodak’s V1253, a 12-megapixel camera that can connect to HD televisions (with an optional $100 dock) and produces video at 720p quality, a bit less than full HD.
This $299.95 camera, available through www.kodak.com and retailers, has image stabilization and face detection built in. It stores images and video in 32 megabytes of internal memory or on an SD card.
The V1253 has multiple scene modes, including some for candlelight and self-portraits, and a panning mode that allows you to stitch together images to capture a panoramic vista. All of the images and video can be viewed on an HDTV or high-definition monitor.
September 27th, 2007
Digital Camera Prices Fall, Sales Rise
eMarketer, NY
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007
The average digital camera price is projected to fall from $298 in 2006 to $191 in 2011 in North America, according to InfoTrends.
The market researcher had projected digital camera sales would top out in 2007 or 2008, but now expects growth to continue through 2010.
“Price declines are happening much more rapidly than shipments are growing,” said Ed Lee, director of InfoTrends, at the Digital Imaging conference. [Those price declines] “probably are one of the reasons sales are up.”
Mr. Lee also noted that while consumers used to share digital cameras with their entire household, prices have fallen so much that people are buying cameras for their own exclusive use.
“We’re seeing a trend toward one camera, one person,” he said. “In the past you had film cameras being a household item and everybody shared that camera. But with advent of cell phones and MP3 players, people like to have their own individual products.”
Infotrends found that the average number of cameras per household in the US rose from 1.4 in 2006 to 1.5 as of September 2007.
September 26th, 2007
BenQ reveals slim T800 digital camera
Slippery Brick, OR
BenQ today globally unveiled its slim T800 digital camera. This upgrade to the T700 is expected to be available in Latin America, Europe and Asia next month, with no as yet announced availability in the United States.
The BenQ T800 offers up an eight megapixel sensor with 3x optical zoom lens. On the backside of the camera is a three-inch LCD monitor with touchscreen capabilities so you can do things like write memos on your images. You can also do in-camera photo editing.
This camera, which will be available in four colors, looks like it could be a sweet little pocket model. We’ll have to see if it hits American shores or if instead we’ll be hitting our favorite importer Web site.
September 25th, 2007
ADULT EDUCATION: Digital camera techniques are taught
Ridgefield Press, USA
Basic Digital Photography with Elyse Shapiro is available through Ridgefield Continuing Education.
This class will cover the essentials of digital photography for cameras that may be used manually (M), including what a pixel is, and the best way to use your camera with all of its modes and menus.
Discussions will also include downloading onto a computer, managing photos, e-mailing, printing and basic image adjustments. A small materials fee is due at the first class.
Ms. Shapiro, a photojournalist and a photography teacher for more than 25 years, teaches photography at The Silvermine School and freelances out of her West Redding studio.
The day class meets Mondays, Oct. 1 through Nov. 5 (six sessions; Venus Building; $93; 10 to noon). The evening class meets at Wednesdays, Sept. 26 through Oct. 24 (five sessions; East Ridge Middle School; 7 to 9; $80).
A discount is available for Ridgefield seniors and disabled. Follow-up classes are available in November.
September 24th, 2007
General Electric A830 Digital Camera Review
DigitalCameraInfo, MO
The GE A830 is one of two digital cameras in the manufacturer’s A-series and one of a small handful of premiere models from GE. Yes, the company that makes refrigerators and washing machines now makes digital cameras. The A830, which retails for less than $150, is the company’s budget model with 8 megapixels and a 3x optical zoom lens.
Front (6.5)
The front of the GE A830 has a rounded left edge with a protruding chrome wrist strap eyelet. Near the center of the camera’s left side is a GE logo. A few words grace the bottom: “8.0 megapixel A830.” The right side of the camera has a labeled “Auto Focus Zoom Lens, 3x 36-108mm 1:2.8-4.8.” The actual glass is covered by thin plastic panels that snap together in the middle. There is a bright chrome rim around the outer edge of the lens barrel and an autofocus assist lamp to the lower left of the lens. In the lower right corner are three holes for the microphone. To the upper left of the lens is the built-in flash unit.
Back (7.0)
The 2.5-inch LCD screen takes up the entire left side of the camera’s back. The screen is framed in a glass-like black frame that makes the LCD look even bigger when the camera is turned off. The right side is slightly rounded and has a neat vertical stack of buttons. In the upper right corner sits a zoom lever. The zoom is a single panel that rocks right and left to zoom out and in, respectively. Directly below the zoom lever is a round face detection button with a menu button just below it. Below the buttons is the multi-selector, which has a central Func/OK button surrounded by a single ring. The ring doesn’t have any dips or grooves to help users feel which direction they are pushing, although there are icons that serve as visual cues to help determine the proper directions. From the top and moving clockwise, the multi-functions are exposure compensation, macro, self-timer, and flash. Below the multi-selector is a delete button labeled with a trash can icon.
Left Side (3.5)
The camera’s thickness is evident from this view. It isn’t going to easily slip into a pants pocket. It will fit in a baggy coat pocket just fine, though. The GE A830 has a central chrome band running down the center with a few grooves and labels engraved in it. At the top are four holes that make a grill for the speaker. In the middle is a tiny bolt that holds the camera body together. Near the bottom are icons and text labels for the USB, AV-out, and DC-in ports, which are open ports placed toward the back side of the camera. Open ports aren’t a good idea, especially if you have gum-chewing children. Get the picture?
Right Side (5.5)
The right side is rounded instead of the boxy left side’s look. The right side is where the hand grips the camera, so the rounded shape makes it a little more comfortable. It also makes it hard for the fingers to hang onto the slippery surface on front, however. There are no divots, finger grips, or textured logos to keep fingers from sliding to the back and the camera diving to the pavement. The rounded right side has a chrome wrist strap eyelet in its center. At the top of this side, the grooved edge of the mode dial can be seen.
Top (6.75)
The chrome band from the left side runs over the edge and across the top of the camera. Its end surrounds the mode dial on the top’s right edge. The mode dial is almost the size of a penny and frames the domed shutter release button in the center. There are several positions on the mode dial: Auto, Manual, Panorama, Portrait, Scene, Image Stabilization, Movie, and Playback. The only other feature on top of the camera is the power button, which is almost in the center of the top.
Bottom (4.5)
The bottom of the GE A830 has a plastic tripod socket in its center that is sure to be stripped with just a few uses. Below the rounded side where the hand grips the camera is the battery and memory card compartment. The plastic door is labeled and has a friction lock that simply slides outward to open. This can easily be jolted open, causing the two AA batteries to spill to the floor. The plastic door has a flimsy hinge, too; this will likely be the first thing to break on this camera.
September 21st, 2007
Fujifilm to shift digital camera output to China
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Wednesday it plans to shift its remaining digital camera production to China and cut an unspecified number of jobs as it restructures its struggling camera operations.
Fujifilm also said it would outsource production of charge coupled devices (CCDs), which are image-capturing chips used in digital cameras, to Toshiba Corp, dissolve a subsidiary and sell land and buildings to electronics parts maker Murata Manufacturing Co.
The camera business restructuring follows a major overhaul of its photographic film operations last year in which it cut 5,000 jobs, or about 7 percent of its global workforce.
The digital camera business has remained a weak spot, and it only broke even on an operating basis in the past business year ended in March as it struggled to keep up with price competition from larger rivals such as Canon Inc
To boost efficiency, Fujifilm said it would stop mass producing digital cameras in Japan and shift its remaining output to China, where it has already transferred 80 percent of its in-house production in a bid to lower costs.
It plans to continue development and back-end processing of CCDs after front-end production goes out to Toshiba.
“The aim is to lower fixed costs and boost efficiency,” said Fujifilm spokesman Tatsuo Suzuki.
Fujifilm plans to dissolve Fujifilm Photonix Co, a wholly owned subsidiary in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, that employs about 700 workers. It will also sell related land and buildings in Miyagi to Murata Manufacturing.
About 200 Fujifilm Photonix employees will be transferred to a new unit that will handle after-sales services and back-end production, such as assembly and testing, of CCDs.
Suzuki said the fate of the remaining employees was not yet decided, though it planned to implement an early retirement scheme. He did not say how many workers would be targeted in the scheme.
Fujifilm, the world’s seventh-largest digital camera maker in 2006, has struggled to carve out a lucrative niche for itself in the market.
It does not have the economies of scale of the larger players and lacks a major presence in digital single lens reflex (SLR) models, a high-end and high-margin segment of the market dominated by Canon and Nikon Corp.
But in a sign of strong market demand, Fujifilm tweaked its digital camera sales forecast higher for the business year to March 2008 to 8 million from 7.8 million units. Fujfilm sold 6.6 million digital cameras in the past business year.
September 20th, 2007
Camera phones vie for share in digital market
Priyanka Joshi / Mumbai September 19, 2007
Business Standard, India
Cell phones equipped with in-built, high-quality cameras are gradually stealing the show from digital cameras, giving their makers a run for their money and market share.
Sample this: India sold close to 40 million units, accounting for around Rs 12,000 crore (or $3 billion) in sales value, in the first six months of 2007, according to industry estimates.
According to GfK Asia, a leading research company, within the colour camera phone category, India reported a growth rate of 296 per cent in volumes alone. On the other hand, the digital camera market is likely to touch 1 million units by 2008, with the total imaging market in India estimated at around Rs 3,500 crore.
Mobile phones today generally have 2-megapixel cameras attached to their belly. Some models from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG have 5-megapixel cameras that should become the standard in 12 months.
“Sales of camera phones have clearly taken the shine off the low-end digital cameras. Already the imaging brands are exiting the sub-2-megapixel space. Camera phones have simply accelerated the exodus,†says Asim Warsi, Samsung’s marketing head.
The sweet spot for digital camera makers last year was the 3- to 4-megapixel category. This year, it’s 5 to 6 megapixels and it shows no signs of stopping there. Even LG, a recent entrant in the phone market, feels that the camera handsets could mean trouble for the stand-alone camera brands.
Anil Arora, head (GSM and Kitchen Appliances), LG India, says, “The cost of megapixels on the phone has gone down to as low as Rs 5,000 for a 1.3-megapixel camera to Rs 8,000 for a 2-megapixel camera. It does not make sense for amateur users to buy a separate camera unit anymore.â€
Retail sales of colour camera phones will continue to dominate the imaging market in India. But the camera market refuses to acknowledge the increasing pressure on its digital imaging product margins.
Digital camera makers such as Canon and Kodak are not fretting over losing potential customers to a slew of snazzy new phones that take pictures with up to 3 megapixels (even 5 megapixels, in some handsets).
Ravi Karemcheti, managing director, Kodak India, asserts, “Better pictures do not depend only on the number of megapixels. They also depend on camera-specific features that include auto-focus, red-eye reduction and xenon flashes.â€
“As we have seen, whatever pure-play camera sales are cannibalised by camera phones are more than compensated by an exponentially larger universe of cameras that is created. That’s good news for the industry,†explains Alok Bharadwaj, vice-president, Canon India.
Karemcheti agrees. “Camera phones, as we see, will be a huge catalyst for people to convert to digital photography.â€
Meanwhile, mobile operators from Airtel to Reliance are making the market tougher for standalone camera makers. They have been promoting services that allow customers to upload photos from mobile phones to online sites, where the pictures can be stored or sent off to be printed.
Manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon and even Kodak are rolling out inexpensive colour photo printers that connect wirelessly to handsets, which do not require storing pictures first on a PC. Just snap a photo, zap it to the printer via Bluetooth short-range radio, and 15 seconds later you have a copy to send to friends and colleagues.
“We think it is the imaging-printing business that will get us revenues in the next couple of years. That’s the reason we are actively promoting printers along with our digital cameras,†says Bhardwaj.
Canon and Kodak remain buoyant despite Gartner figures, which suggest that only about 2 per cent of pictures taken on phones today are actually printed out.
September 19th, 2007
The V8 looks beefy yet slim, packs an impressive 7x zoom and has our ears perked at the idea of stereo audio recording in video mode. But does it take good pictures?
infoSync World, Norway
Design – Good
We generally like the metal casing of most Casio cameras. It was a bit thicker than others we have tested, but it was still small enough for a pants pocket. The camera is solid, feels very well-made, and the metal body resisted minor falls and scrapes. All the buttons were responsive, and most were labeled well enough to understand without too much difficulty. The lens retracts into the body when the camera is turned off or in photo review mode, providing reasonable protection
The 2.5″ LCD is as an effective viewfinder, but like most LCDs, the low-resolution prevents it from being a good indicator of whether a picture will turn out well once it was on our computer. Still, we understand this is a problem that will be endemic to high-megapixel cameras.
Interface and Features – Good
Much like the Casio EX-Z77 we tested recently, the V8 is laden with complicated menus that are almost necessary because of the bevy of included features. We liked Best Shot and the YouTube capture mode. Best Shot is essentially a group of presets that is supposed to optimize conditions for picture-taking in certain scenarios. It helped, but not much; we were never satisfied with the pictures we got. Still missing was a Panorama mode.
While we like the YouTube capture mode, our interest is based mostly upon the included YouTube Uploader software, which simplifies the process of uploading content to the viral video Web site. The uploader program pops up as soon as a camera or card is connected to the computer, and every video is listed. A few short steps later and you’re ready to be an internet superstar. However, the pre-formatted YouTube settings don’t make for very crisp video.
When we noticed the two microphones on the front of the camera and the words “STEREO” emblazoned between them, we got excited, since much of our digital camera video-shooting takes place at concerts, which would seemingly benefit from better audio recording. But we were disappointed with the sound quality; everything seemed muffled and distorted, far worse than what we have experienced with mono-recording cameras. We were pretty impressed with the ability to zoom during video recording, though, as it is something we rarely see. It would have been a tease to have such a long zoom lens and not be able to use it.
We liked the UHQ wide mode (we have an admitted weak spot for widscreen video), which shot decent video even with low light, but in the highest resolution possible, the videos were not pre-formatted for YouTube. We didn’t really penalize the camera for this; the user who requires higher quality video, most likely knows what they’re doing with the videos anyway and can handle uploads without the bundled software.
This is probably a good thing, because included software bundle is relatively weak. The few options include burn to disk, send by email, print, slideshow and order prints. However, the largest resolution possible for e-mailing photos through the program is 800×600, and you can’t order prints online, but rather need a blank memory card to store photos for your local photo developer to print for you. We’ve voiced our displeasure with Casio’s software in the past; nothing significant has been changed with this model.
We were only able to fit a few pictures on the internal memory, but the fact that it had any was nice enough. We liked the SD slot–using the most common and inexpensive format–especially since it reads SDHC cards.
Camera Quality – Very good
The EX-V8 has an impressive 7X optical zoom lens, especially with its relatively slim size. ISO settings should have offered a little higher than ISO 800, especially when comparable models are shipping with ISO 1600. We’d like to see some better stats from a $300 camera, but it appears most of the money went into the 8.1 megapixel sensor, anti-shake and the 7x internal optical zoom.
The auto-focus never seemed to work properly for us. The motor that drove the lens was constantly whirring, and only stopped once we clicked the shutter. The anti-shake made a definite difference, on both video and still shots, working much better than other Casio models we’ve tested. That being said, it usually didn’t matter, because the picture was blurred not by our hand shaking but the failing autofocus.
Startup on the EX-V8 was extremely fast, no doubt aided by the mechanical slide-open on switch. We were able to go from the off position to a (relatively) focused, finished photo in under 2 seconds, but unlike other cameras the time between successive shots did not improve. We liked the in-camera editing functions (including rotation, resizing and cropping). But as we mentioned before, thanks to high photo resolutions, the LCD’s resolution was too low to see if the editing we did was an improvement or not.
Image Quality – Mediocre
We tried extremely hard, but we were completely unable to like any of the photos we took with this camera. Low-light, sunlight, indoors or outdoors, the pictures just looked…bad. Lots of noise, blurry subjects and a complete inability to focus automatically all made every picture suffer, so much that we couldn’t find one suitable sample to display. Outdoor daytime shots worked best, but the camera rarely focused on what we wanted it to. We found ourselves moving the camera until the little blinking box turned green, which was more annoying than helpful.
With a firm grasp on the tenets of photography, it is imagined that one could use the camera completely manually with some success, but changing the settings on this point-and-shoot is much more difficult than with an old manual SLR, and when you buy a camera like this, the ability to take a photo quickly is worth just as much as the ability to negotiate F stops and shutter speeds.
Accessories – Very Good
We love the included dock, especially since it meant we didn’t have to take out the battery and charge it with a battery charger. Aside from keeping our desk more organized, it allows us to pop the camera in and start charging or syncing immediately (although not both at once, unfortunately). We would like to see the ability to charge via USB (the included AC adapter was just yet another wire to get tangled in), and an option to bypass the dock if we wanted. While we liked the dock, the thought of having to buy a new dock just to see our pictures was not a pleasurable one, and no USB ports on the camera meant we couldn’t sync with another computer (like one at a friend’s house). Inconveniences aside, the camera comes with most everything needed to take pictures and videos and put them on your computer or play them on your TV. We still lament for the days when companies would include necessary accessories like an SD card, but at this point it’s a pipe dream. Items that were included: Lithium Ion Battery, dock, AC power cord, camera strap, USB cable, AV cable and a CD-ROM with software.
September 18th, 2007
Digital Cameras Record Baby’s Every Move
By ANICK JESDANUN – 7 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — For her 30th birthday, while she was still pregnant, Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos.
She enjoyed the trip down memory lane — recalling, for instance, the wooden slide she had in her room and the way she used to play on it. But she also noticed many gaps in the collection, in some cases months or even a year in length.<--more-->
So after Nie gave birth to Amber last December, she was determined to leave a better record, a daily diary through imagery. She slips her Canon PowerShot SD450 digital camera into a diaper bag anywhere she goes and has snapped more than 6,500 photos in nine months.
“I grab it all the time, if she’s just doing something really cute, maybe playing with a toy or grabbing a shoe in a shoe store,” Nie said. “I don’t really delete any. Years from now, I want to remember the bad face she made” — not just the smiles.
Thanks to cheap and easy-to-use recording devices — digital cameras, camcorders, camera phones — today’s kids are forming the most documented generation ever, as parents, relatives and friends capture forever the first, second and hundredth smile.
The challenge will come in managing all the data and making sure they get migrated and cared for along the way.
“There’s going to be little escaping the embarrassment that comes with having that many baby photos and videos,” said Steve Jones, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “On the other hand, what a great thing for this generation to have.”
The research company InfoTrends estimates that 67 percent of U.S. households had digital cameras last year, up from 42 percent in 2004.
Today’s children will get a glimpse tomorrow of what everyday life was like — how their parents dressed, what furniture and paintings were in their homes — not just during birthdays and special occasions when past generations were more apt to pull out their film cameras and pose in their best outfits.
“With digital you can just keep on taking to get the one you want,” said Amy Short, a nurse in East Alton, Ill. “I definitely take a lot more of my son of just everyday, laying around or sleeping or just little things.”
Virginia Merritt of Newnan, Ga., laments that she has few records from her life past 8 months, including when she started walking.
“I just have what my mom remembers,” she said.
So for Evan, who turns 1 on Sept. 25, Merritt made sure to keep a list of firsts on the Web site TotSites, including first use of a sippy cup (Aug. 8), first fever (April 
and first passing of a toy from one hand to the other (Feb. 12) — categories generally not found in traditional, printed baby books.
She also posted sonograms from her pregnancy at Baby Crowd, a Web site for expecting parents.
But all this documentation may carry a price if parents, in spending so much energy creating and preserving a digital archive, fail to enjoy living the moment.
And will future generations even have time to look through stacks of CDs containing tens or hundreds of thousands of photos, and even if they do will individual memories become less precious because there are so many?
What if disk drives fail or software formats change, rendering photos unreadable by tomorrow’s computers? Will CDs even work? Think of those reels of 8 mm home movies with no projectors for viewing them.
“If you look at your parents’ or grandparents’ belongings, you can find old negatives, … and negatives are still reproducible,” said Greg Miele, a Bethesda, Md., father of two, ages 9 and 17. “Yet if you have a hard drive fail on your computer, it’s all over. It’s a huge risk to maintain your photographs in a digital medium.”
After two years of shooting digital, Heidi Grunwald has started returning to film, overwhelmed by the prospect of cataloging all the photos too easily snapped.
“It’s taking a lot of enjoyment out of photography,” said the mother of a 9-year-old. “I find myself not even using the camera, thinking that if I take photographs of this school event, I’m now going to have to spend a whole week processing them. Why do you need all those pictures? Who’s going to look at them all at the end of the day?”
Many parents acknowledge their kids may never want all the photos, but they say they’d like to have them available just in case they want them — particularly as they become parents themselves.
“Now that I have children of my own, I would love to see baby pictures of me to see if my daughter looks like I did, what characteristics I share,” said Thea Jankowski of Saint Charles, Ill.
Until that day comes, many of the photos are being distributed to family and friends via e-mail and photo-sharing Web sites — in some cases exposing their child’s most private moments to the entire world.
Some parents buy additional disk drives to archive photos, burn them on CDs or keep copies online — not always mindful that photo sites often make it difficult to retrieve the original, high-resolution versions necessary for quality prints.
Brian Gilbreth of Louisa, Va., simply buys new memory cards for his camera. He has four already, each holding 2,000 shots of newborn Ava, including “every outfit she’s in, every facial expression, every hairdo she comes out with.”
Nie, who lives in New York, has been taking monthly shots of her child in the same armchair, each with a birthday cake. It’s today’s equivalent of the formal portraits past generations took at J.C. Penney or Sears.
Alexa Schmid, mother of twins in Plymouth, N.H., snaps shots of her daughters “recognizing each other, playing with each other.”
She stores the images on the computer with separate subfolders for each month, and she renames some files — as in “Isabella Playing” with the date — in hopes of remembering the context years from now.
Jennifer Lucas, of Frankfort, Ill., makes prints of the best photos and keeps them in a traditional album. She keeps the rest by month on CDs.
“Looking back at what my parents have of me, there might be 20 to 30 pictures from my entire first year,” Lucas said. With Jack, born four months ago, “we already have hundreds documenting everything he’s already done. Chances are those discs are never going to be looked at again when he gets older, but they will be there in case.”
September 17th, 2007
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