Digital BW, The Print

hit the delete key and keep only those that 
> are required at that point in time. Whereas our old family albums 
> from our Grandparents contain every shot that was taken with that old 
> Kodak Box Brownie.
> 
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> History will be the worse off for information because of it.
> 
> Peter Banks
> New Zealand
>  
 
Editing is more important than saving because it hints at a glimmer of
intelligence, unlike saving. Generic "information" is mere noise.

Photos of unknown, unidentified generations are nearly worthless.
Thomas Jefferson's family didn't have photos, but somehow he did
relatively well as a person. There may be people in New Zealand who
also did similarly OK without snaps. This stuff is valuable to those
for whom its valuable, to others it's clutter. 

It's far more important to write reasonably well than to be a good
archivist, photographer or digital technician. If we don't write
something about our collections of photos, we might as well burn them.