That still works and you can do without data binding too.

It often isn't the first choice except for databases that will never get large. Images take a lot of space and you can run into the limits of .MDB and even .ACCDB files fairly fast. It doesn't help that a lot of people end up storing bulky BMP images instead of compressing to GIF or JPEG (or even PNG with a little care though that is usually off the table for bound controls).