Article: Digital photography displaces film, but fate of finished photos remains in flux.

By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 18--Amy Lambert stood on her toes and peered over the Towson crowd, watching the Independence Day parade advance toward her. Camera in hand, she waited for the perfect shot. Almost, almost now. Snap!

It was a keeper, she confirmed, previewing the picture with her 2-year-old son through a screen on the camera. But it didn't matter if it weren't: She could always delete it and try again.

"That's a good thing about having a digital camera," the Lutherville mom said. There's no waste of film and no disappointment when prints reveal a wayward finger blocking the shot.

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