Date Imprint - why is it hard to find?

[KJBrock]

Does anyone know WHY the DC industry has discontinued the DATE IMPRINT function on most cameras? I LOVE this function even though I take most pictures without it. Very few fixed lense cameras include this function and I wonder why it's becoming a thing of the past.

[cdifoto]

Does anyone know WHY the DC industry has discontinued the DATE IMPRINT function on most cameras? I LOVE this function even though I take most pictures without it. Very few fixed lense cameras include this function and I wonder why it's becoming a thing of the past.
Because it looks cheesy and the date is embedded in the image anyway.

[K1W1]

What he said.

If you want the date on the front of your photos it's really easy to do using software. I think the printed date function was more a hang over from the later film days when the date was not recorded any other way.