Don't mourn analogue photography

The US camera and film manufacturer Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. This is the end of an era but no reason to cry, writes the daily La Stampa commenting on Kodak's decision: "Anyone who connects his digital camera's memory card to the computer and sees almost instantly what he has just photographed perhaps can't understand the frisson of anticipation that the ritual of picking up your photos from the photo lab once provoked. ... But one shouldn't demonise digital photography because it offers the advantage of taking as many pictures as you like. Ultimately it's just the moment of decision that has shifted. In the Kodak era you had to decide in the instant you released the shutter whether that moment was a memorable one and should be preserved or not. Nowadays that decision is made when you save the pictures. Because whether it's on paper or on screen, the number of moments that are worth reliving is not unlimited."

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