The Digital Divide

I just saw it firsthand. You can now get digital camera memory at your average grocery store, often right at the counter beside film and one-time use cameras. That was one of those things I was waiting for to tell me how ubiquitous digital cameras have become. Of course whether someone will be spending $60 for an at-the-counter impulse purchase remains to be seen, but I'm sure that prices will fall quicker now.

On a similar note, I heard from a Studio Lighting podcast that digital storage is getting cheap enough that it is being considered for use as image archiving, the same as film. You take your pictures, and then you store the cards. At $10 for 64MB (about 20 shots with the average camera), it costs a similar amount to film, and is supposed to be better for long-term storage than CDs or DVDs. But is this really an advance?