not everyone owns a digital camera
Don't they?
The proliferation of Smurfones with them incorporated as a feature, would, beg suggestion that; far more of the planets population, now both own a digital camera, and regularly carry a digital camera and are therefore likely to regularly take photo's with, it than was ever the case in the film only era, when for a large part cameras were less common than cars, spent most of their lives hidden in draws of on top of wardrobes, and at the height of their popularity, there were still only perhaps one to two cameras per house-hold, and the average household only had one to two films developed a year.... maybe 50 fames, mostly from the annual holiday!
The greatest contribution of Digital-Photo-Capture, if anything, has got to be that it has so hugely expanded the photo-taking majority, and from electronic easement and delivery, that make access to the photo's so widely available, so may are inspired to take photo's, and from that, desire 'better' photo's and investigate more dedicated photo equipment.... and even try FILM!!!!
Which is how this thread started.. curiously!
Its a shame that in the exponential expansion of the pursuit, the side effect has been the cult of the 'Selfie', photo's of the English Breakfast at whatever transport cafe some-one has visited, and an utter over load of daily baby-photo's rather than ONE annual christmas card studio shot.... but still! Guess we have to expect a proportional increase of Chaff with the extra Wheat! (just wish I didn't have to wade though it! Especially sister-in-laws daily updates of whatever darling niece has stuck her fingers in this-morning!... )
Oh WHY is the one 'filter' modern cameras lack, a 'Taste' filter!!!!! Now THAT would be an "App" wort having! Wouldn't instagram be GREAT if there was a user dialogue box that came up and said, "Do you wish to proceed with uploading this photo?" Y/N.... "are you sure Y/N"....... "you posted a picture almost exactly the same yesterday.... do you really want to upload this one?" Y/N....."Composition-Bot has counted [however many] compositional errors in this image. Are they deliberate, do you wish to proceed?" Y/N..... and finally... "The taste filter has detected unsavory elements to your picture, please try again!" Given military grade pattern recognition software developed for target-acquisition that has been re-purposed to suggest you add a name tag to a person in a face-book photo, it HAS to be possible! Why oh WHY is it all we get is an innumerable number of suggested 'effects' that make a Cokin prism filter seem 'subtle'!!!? But hey-ho!
I think the last person I know to shun a Digital Camera, was my Gran about a decade ago. My Aunt had been aghast that she had avoided a Smurfone, pointing to the un-opened box on the dresser containing a BT 'Pay As you Go' mobile from approximately 2001, she had never used, and being grumbled at by my Uncle who said "You should take it every where you go!" And being left confounded when she said "Oh, but I DO!" lol! Anyway Auntie bought her a Digital Compact circa 2005, after Gran had sent her to the village shop to buy a film, so she could 'take a few snaps of the grand kids whilst they are here'.. and the shop had none... so she went to Argos.... Gran was absolutely wowed by the 'vidio' capability, "Its like my Cine 8" she said, "But I don't have to wait six months to get it developed!.. Put it on the big screen for me then..." which was where it sort of came to a faltering halt! And I got the full story, when Auntie phoned me to find out of there was some sort of adapter you could get to plug a USB cable into a co-axial TV areal socket! Lol! I distinctly heard in the back-ground, "No, No! You don't need to buy me a computer, just ask Mike to drop me in a roll of film, when he's passing... sure he said he gets them from the Petrol-Station"lol!