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One Hour Photo? Try One Minute Photo.

Photo developing services at pharmacies and Wal-marts everywhere are a dying breed, and I for one say good riddance. Why bring a roll of film in and pay to have all of your photos developed sight-unseen? You end up waiting around, and you’re stuck with a hard copy of all your bad pictures in addition to the good ones.

Thank heavens for technology. This Canon Selphy CP730 Compact Photo Printer is a photo development lab that you can keep at your fingertips. If you have a digital camera, you don’t even need to have a computer to operate it. Just stick in your memory card or plug your camera in to preview your shots on the built-in 2-inch LCD screen. The select the ones you want to print out and presto, you’ve got high quality photos in your hands. You can even use the included battery pack to take the printer on the go, making it a mobile photo lab. I’d like to see the guys down at Walgreen’s do that.

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Published by Adam on December 6th, 2006 and listed in Cameras.

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Carl 01/29/2009 06:39 PM 1 point
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"Good Riddance?" excuse me but there are still some film photographers out there, many of them amateur, who will miss the days of one hour photo development. These photo services are also useful for any sort of social science work where a permanent copy is required (archeology, criminal investigation). Due to the problems of the ever-changing digital formats there is no way to tell if todays formats or storage media will be readable in 50 years. For example, how many computers in use today can read the old punch cards from early computers? No, the loss of one hour photo is a loss to film photographers everywhere.

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p0ps 01/29/2009 06:46 PM 1 point
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digital photos posted to the cloud have the best chance of surviving
changing technology formats.

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Atane 01/30/2009 10:29 AM 1 point
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I really don't understand how not using film photography hinders you from storing permanent copies. In fact, it makes it easier. Archaeologists, Cops, Crime investigators etc all use digital cameras today and can make unlimited prints if they wanted.

Further more, they can see the quality of the pictures when they take them, unlike film photography where you have to wait to see the quality of the pictures after the fact. Imagine you are an archaeologist on an expedition and you discover some rare artifact, then when you get your film developed, you realize that most of your pictures were terrible. This is not a problem with digital photography.

I really can't think of any problems with digital photography, other than people who wax poetics about film photography simply because of nostalgia. In terms of practicality, film photography is dead.

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