Physical photos have a different feel. You wouldn’t look at a piece of art in a museum and think it’d be better digital. It’s personal. It’s a feeling to open up a book and see the past. You take the time and experience it when you have to flip the pages. Idk, maybe in my 30s, I’m just an old fart
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Photo albums are kinda meh. You need to First make photos, catalog them in albums, theb take them out and look at them, which we usually don’t do. Digital photo frames are cool. They are just there endlessly rotating memories in your living room. Digital photo frames were all the rage some 10+ years ago and people forgot about them now, but they are still a thing and they serve the purpose so well. Regular photo frame holds 1 photo. Digital has enire album. The one I have has actuallynice faux wooden frame so it lookslikeactual photo frame and not like a tablet.
474D@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
No, but if there was a digital piece of art, I wouldn’t think it would be better painted either. Art is supposed to stay in the medium they were created.
What is better is the amount of storage required to save those museum pieces.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents’ grandparents?
Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.
Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
I'm going to upset everyone and say I dislike both!
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is that because you lived a life so unremarkable that nobody would want to look at photographs of you, even for historical source material or are you so miserable that you don’t want any photographs of yourself because when you look at them all you can see is the pain in your eyes that only you can see through the lie of a smile you use to protect others from knowing the depths of your despair?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
Nope, although that's an interestingly bleak take on it!
I find physical albums annoying because they spend the overwhelming majority of their time unseen in a drawer. They have to be protected and unless one has the negatives or an obsessive approach then they are a single point of failure. I want to see the photos and love things like collages. My bedroom wall used to be covered in pics!
I find digital photo frames annoying because they feel like a massive bottleneck. Like looking a the world through a straw.
I don't actually know which approach I feel is sensible for my tastes, just that I don't really like either option.
I'm currently (as in the processing is happening in another tab as I type) collecting my photos together, going back to Q1 2002 so that I'll at least have them in one place. From there I might generate collages or something. I'm not sure what'd be fun, but at least I'll have an API that I can access the data through to try cool shit. Fire up the colour laser printer!
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have an old Mac mini that I installed Ubuntu on to work as a digital frame. It works great and runs its own file server so it is easy to add pictures to.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
With albums you get to have a moment to organise memories, and share them with loved ones.
with digital albums? i take pictures and forget they exist.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Realistically you do it once every decade, maybe. With digital frame in a living room, I see photos of my sister, nephews, photos of all the guinea pigs and hamsters I had, of my dog… They just randomly rotate every day and randomly wake up fond memories. It really works.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Both? Both. Both is good.