The "First" Time Is The Best!
It'll be one of those experiences like the first time I (fill in the blank). You'll remember it. It'll be a "significant day." Trust me on this, digital photography is like NOTHING else you've experienced. Case in point is ME!
I'm the last person you'd expect to see doing traditional photography. Had a phase with it, back in the late '70's, but I've got rolls and rolls of film that are 30 years old in drawers. What's on them? History. . . and youth . . . and little kids . . . and some beautiful scenery of Spain, Turkey, France . . . big chunks of Europe in general. Are they ever going to get developed? Beats me.
This is my fourth digital camera. I had ONE 35 MM camera, and it was a good one. I developed some rolls of film, but the vast majority ended up getting lost in the shuffle. I can find every image I've taken and kept from my digital cameras. I figure I have roughly a thousand photographs layin' around in albums, in boxes, bags and bottoms of desk drawers. Taken over the span of probably 35 years. With JUST my current digital camera, I've shot over 2,400 images. With my previous cameras, I figure the grand total is closer to 5,000 images. And I spent not dime ONE on developing ANY of those images.
I threw away the bad ones, kept even the marginally good ones, sometimes. SOMETHING in the image could be saved or was of interest. I have a half dozen Zip disks packed with my digital images. The entire house I lived in, every picture on the walls, every bookcase, every hanging, sitting, propped and free-standing object IN that house . . . before it got packed up and divided. My cars, pristine, shiny and accompanied by the exteriors of Nebraska. My kids, now NOT kids anymore. Portraits of the cats now gone, dogs laid to rest. Images of the moment, shot without regard for film, speed, shutter or even seemliness. Just TAKEN. On a whim. Point and shoot. It costs nothing to shoot an image, and sometimes what you get is priceless.
