This poetic post sets me in a very nostalgic mood. Those where the days, (I'm not at all ironic here).
At the same time, I can't help wondering if my sons will be saying similar things about the media of today: Digital photo. ;-) Something like "A kid born in 2028 (when I turn 40) won't ever edit his own digies, wont experiment with WB, won't play with gamma and curves ..." Me don't know, but are still in state of nostalgica. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: David Oswald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26. august 2005 07:03 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throws > > > > Jack Davis wrote: > > How much longer will starving film cameras demand 35mm > > color pos/neg films be produced? What level of > > production and availability would qualify as "in > > production"? > > What's the likelihood of film's resuscitation through > > some manner of structural breakthrough? > > Un-answerable, but care to muse? > > > > I was thinking the other day about things I remember from my childhood > (I was born in 1968): > > Visiting the "As-Is" section of a local thrift store. "You can buy one > thing up to $1.00". I found some relic of a malfunctioning bellows > camera. I wonder whatever happened to that. > > My first (functioning) camera: A 126 with flashcube. > > Sitting in the back seat of the stationwagon while my parents pass > through the "PhotoHut" drive-through to pick up their prints and slides. > > Family gatherings with the slide projector. Dad always messing around > with the focus until we were all dizzy. Slides always getting stuck in > the mechanism. Remember how they pop out of focus if they get too hot? > > Our Polaroid One-Step; a photographic disappointment. > > Junior High School Photography class: Developing B&W negatives and > processing my own prints. Building a pinhole camera. Opening a new > world of creativity. > > Dad got himself an Olympus OM-2n and began acquiring lenses. I can > still name most of them: 50mm f/1.4, 85mm f/1.8, 135mm f/2.8, 24mm > f/2.8, 28mm f/2.8, 35-70 f/??, Vivitar teleconverter: 2x, and 1:1 macro. > I had a lot of fun with that camera too. > > Taking my own slides and prints on an extended trip to Portugal > (1987-1989), with a hand-me-down Canon A1 (or something like that; a > split-image focusing camera that looked a lot like an SLR but wasn't). > > My PZ-20: A chance to dig a little deeper into the hobby. > > My ZX-5n: I tried new film almost every month there for awhile: Royal > Gold, Gold, Max, Porta 400VC, 160NC, Supra 100, 400, 800, NHG 800, > Superia 400, Reala 100, Tri-X, and so on... pushing, pulling, filtering, > rewinding with the leader out so I can swap but still finish the roll > later, etc. > > A kid born in 2008 (when I turn 40) won't ever process his own prints, > won't experiment with film, won't pick up prints at PhotoHut, won't > watch family slide shows on a projector screen, and won't know that 24 > Exposure rolls really have 25 shots on them if you're lucky. ;) >
