In a message dated 9/26/06 12:04:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kennybod@xxxxxxx writes: > The digicam > wedding is déclassé. Digital weddings (ha!) are popular, though having strange effects on the wedding photo biz. An unfortunate case is the you-too-can-be-a-professional-photographer-or-just-look-like-one where the digital photog simply covers the wedding and reception and burns a cd to give to the lucky couple and splits. I know this happened in film also, but not to the extent it's happening in digital. Our lab sees this all the time -- the unhappy bride brings in original images on a cd with no post processing cropping, sharpening, etc. Some innovative things are done in digiweddings like having a big flatscreen monitor at the reception showing images of the ceremony, and onsite printing - most of these are sales-driven, more than a benefit to the customer. The 10x10 composite digital layout album is popular. But the high end is indeed the archival/lasts forever (like marriage?) black and white shot wedding. Bob Laubach Manassas VA