As I write this my laptop is chugging away exporting 223 hires jpgs, (21 megapixel). In the time of film the finished product was either a transparency or a print. Now most clients just want a digital file for use in documents or posters.
This does not mean that it is necessarily quicker now though, a one day shoot will see a least one day of sorting and processing images, whether the photographer does it or has an assistant do it for them. What is quicker now is doing this, when digital first came inmost of this work was done in photoshop or proprietary software that was slow and cumbersome. Now with applications like Apples Aperture and Adobes Lightroom the process of working with camera RAW files is greatly simplified.
There was a time where people thought that computers would make life easier and give us more time, whilst we lost that vision for a while, I believe that time dawning. Certainly for photographers computers are making our life much easier.
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