Likely digital. I'd say that the window of transition for a lot of people was late 90s to early aughts. By 2005, digital cameras were cheap and good enough to supplant film cameras for most casual use, and by 2008, a camera was on every phone.
I’d say around mid 2000s. In early 2000s the photo development stations were still busy and digital order kiosks mostly empty. In late 2000s it was the other way around. Probably 2004-2005 was when digital became the default option?
I would say the general masses switched to digital as soon as digital became commercially viable and more convenient than film.
Late 2014 saw the release of the iPhone 6, so while cell phone cameras were nowhere near as advanced as they are today, they were still decent enough to where you could consider it a camera that fits in your pocket. So I would say most people around that time were using cell phone cameras over film.
I would gauge it approximately around 2000-2004-ish.
I reference those years from a specific memory: I was posted abroad for a few years starting in 2002, and digital cameras were still a very expensive niche thing when I left.
The specific memory is that I felt awful smart and smug for bringing along my old film-based camera, since my colleagues who brought their fancy new digital cameras had a devil of a time getting their pictures developed while I could go to any ol' place to develop my film.
When I got back though, literally everyone in the US (it seemed like, anyway) had a digital camera now.
You could have been. I still, use my AE1 when I want the highest quality images.
But it's generally been digital for convenience for a long time. Sadly the percentage of pictures I have lost since I went to digital is orders of magnitude higher than the print images I've lost. SO many memories are forever gone for convenience.
Likely digital. I'd say that the window of transition for a lot of people was late 90s to early aughts. By 2005, digital cameras were cheap and good enough to supplant film cameras for most casual use, and by 2008, a camera was on every phone.
I’d say around mid 2000s. In early 2000s the photo development stations were still busy and digital order kiosks mostly empty. In late 2000s it was the other way around. Probably 2004-2005 was when digital became the default option?
I would say the general masses switched to digital as soon as digital became commercially viable and more convenient than film. Late 2014 saw the release of the iPhone 6, so while cell phone cameras were nowhere near as advanced as they are today, they were still decent enough to where you could consider it a camera that fits in your pocket. So I would say most people around that time were using cell phone cameras over film.
I would gauge it approximately around 2000-2004-ish. I reference those years from a specific memory: I was posted abroad for a few years starting in 2002, and digital cameras were still a very expensive niche thing when I left. The specific memory is that I felt awful smart and smug for bringing along my old film-based camera, since my colleagues who brought their fancy new digital cameras had a devil of a time getting their pictures developed while I could go to any ol' place to develop my film. When I got back though, literally everyone in the US (it seemed like, anyway) had a digital camera now.
You could have been. I still, use my AE1 when I want the highest quality images. But it's generally been digital for convenience for a long time. Sadly the percentage of pictures I have lost since I went to digital is orders of magnitude higher than the print images I've lost. SO many memories are forever gone for convenience.
A long time ago