And there's certainly something to be said for the art of photography itself. When each photo requires a certain amount of manual labor to process after the fact, you become a better photographer more quickly because you're no longer just randomly shooting and culling out the bad shots.

Selecting the "good" photos out of a shooting session was, once upon a time, only a small part of the art of photography. These days with digital cameras and huge amounts of storage, it's quickly becoming the biggest part of the process.