Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: digital photographer deleting old images
From: KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Wed Aug 3 07:34:59 2005

Dan sed:

>An article by Freeman Patterson in Photo Life magazine raised a 
>question about how photojournalists using digital cameras treated 
>their images.  He suggested that the norm was for them to essentially 
>delete their older unused images, as opposed to film photographers who 
>tend to keep their negatives. 

I don't know about other people, but I have every single out of focus,
under-exposed, blown highlit digital image I've ever taken, starting in
1999. three copies of each, more copies of the ones in my portfolio.

Kc