14 DAY TRIAL // A lot of studies were made regarding the effects of digital cameras on our memory, and some of them concluded that photography can sometimes affect our memory.
In a new test titled “The Influence of Taking Photos on Memory for a Museum Tour,” Professor of Psychology at Fairfield University Linda A. Henkel indicates that it's possible to forget the objects we see if we're concentrating on photographing them.
For this study, 28 university students were invited to a guided tour of an art museum where they were told to photograph some objects and observe others.
The test results concluded that the subjects who took a photo of each object as a whole had a hard time remembering various details about them as well as their location in the museum when compared with those who didn't have a camera, resulting in a photo-taking-impairment effect.
On the other hand, when subjects were asked to zoom in and photograph certain aspects of each object, it seemed that their memory had not been impaired and everyone managed to remember the entire objects as well as their zoomed in features.
Whether you take the results of this test seriously or not, I think this wouldn't make anyone want to quit photography.