I still don’t think photographic memory exists, at least in the way I think it should. Photographic memory should work like this:
You open a random page in a book, blink your eyes like a camera snapshot, then close the book. You’ve had no chance to read any of the text whatsoever.
But you have photographic memory! So you review that mental photograph in your mind, and clear as day, you can read all the text for the first time.
As far as I’ve heard, nobody can do that, so nobody really has photographic memory. I don’t think memory qualifies as photographic if you have to mentally review every aspect of the photo prior to taking a mental snapshot.
