Digital BW, The Print

Truman Prevatt writes:

> Time will tell, but hopefully once they reach their
> creative potential firing away in automatic, some will
> explore deeper.

Digital will not increase or decrease the number of serious
photographers in the world.  It will, however, greatly increase the
number of very casual amateurs taking pictures.  Anything that makes a
technology more accessible and easy to use will increase the number of
people using that technology.  "We do the rest" cameras did it once,
35mm cameras did it a bit more, Polaroids still more ... and now digital
cameras.  So the only real change is that the _percentage_ of serious
photographers will diminish--but their absolute numbers will not change
(or perhaps will very slightly increase).