Secrets of the PlayStation Portable

9. Viewing Images on the PSP

Now that the world of photography has gone digital (for all but the staunchest analog snobs, who insist that even a 100-megapixel image will never match 35mm film), we take pictures all willy-nilly–like. We’re no longer on the tight collar of the roll of film threaded through the camera; now we’re limited only by the amount of memory we can carry. And memory’s small and getting cheaper; a decent camera can hold hundreds of images in a mere 512 MB of flash memory.

In the olden days, we had to take pictures on film, get them developed, and then carry around bulky envelopes of physical photographs to show them to our acquaintances. That would hardly work today, when we likely take two or three times more pictures than ...