One of my sisters, who is the unofficial archiver of the family, kept the photo albums when my parents passed. However I kept another treasure: the Rolleiflex camera that recorded our childhoods.
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With your powers combined you can take and store a photo. I hope you have a third sibling who inherited the dark room.
The 4th sibling does have a dark room, but they misunderstood the assignment...
Blacklight raves? Creepy sex dungeon? Mushroom farming?
Yes
that's where I wanna be
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Lawyer: and here is your share of the inheritance
Flicks off light switch
We do have a 3rd sibling, but alas, she has no dark room. Also, not sure you can find 120 film these day.
Oh you totally can. Costs more than it used to, but they're still making it!
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I know that camera very well i high poly 3d modelled it as part a midterm project and its by far my most favourite thing i ever modelled.
I am not sure if i still have an easily accessible pic of it though since i long deleted my fb.
I got married in the aughts, just a few years after Outkast came out with the song Hey Ya, which was a super popular song. Anyway, my wife and I had a Polaroid camera and thought it would be fun to leave it out with a bunch of film so our wedding guests could take pictures of the night for us.
So we went to Target to buy film and ask a teenager working there if they sold Polaroid film. They had no idea what we were talking about. I said remember asking my wife, "So what do you suppose they think that line 'shake it like a Polaroid picture' means?"
That teenager would be in their mid-30s by now...
The aughts?? Surely that must have been a particularly ignorant teen, or they were messing with you. High quality phone cameras were far from ubiquitous then. My phone had a camera but I was still buying disposable ones at CVS before going on trips so I could get high quality photos all the way through the aughts. And if that teen is in their mid 30s now, I'm still younger than them...
I'm 29 and we had a Polaroid at our wedding three years ago. That teenager must've been living under a rock.
In the time period they were referencing Polaroids were at risk of extinction because only one company was making the film at one plant and only through the complaining of hipsters were you able to have Polaroids at your wedding.
2001 Polaroid went bankrupt. 07-08 cameras and film stopped production.
2010 a hipster group restarted production.
2020 new Polaroid cameras are introduced.
Many younger people only know Polaroids as an icon in a video game or a prop from a music video; they don't know what they are called.
Maybe it was the Polaroid part they didn't understand? Probably used to disposables.
Probably that. Im mid 30s, UK, and have never seen a Polaroid in my life. Ive seen 2 people with polaroids on their bedroom walls, but never seen a camera except on TV.
To my mind they're only used to show "look, its the 80s! Its a scene set in the past!" Or "look how quirky the indie hipster kid in this scene is!"
You're kind of forgetting about digital cameras. Looking back, I was on my 3rd or 4th digital camera at the time - and Polaroid had been bankrupt for years.
I didn't mean good digitals didn't exist, but that analog camaras were still very common. And they were. The overwhelming majority of teens in the aughts would know very well what polaroid was
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I got my first photo album in the early 90s when my parents gave me a Polaroid camera! Somehow I have now inherited my grandparents photo albums with pictures going back to the 1940s to the 80s when I was a kid and I love looking through them even though I don't know who all of the people are. It's a MUCH different experience than swiping through images on a phone and it makes me sad that younger people might never experience that
na that kid just dumb, parents or caretakers didn’t know how to decorate clearly lol
More likely that monica is dumb. The photo labs are usually next to the electronics sections.
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Tell him its like a trading card binder but for 4x6" cards or family members
You print out your pictures?
Or you still use film? Do you develop it yourself? Cuz I don't even know where you'd do that these days outside of the rare specialty place. The nearest one to me is a 3 hour drive. 😮💨
We do. They were printed from a print service that ships them to you. We do physical albums because I find it easier to hand to visitors than handing them my phone or trying to curate albums I can share digitally. Also don't have to manage who has access to my digital albums.
My dumb old ass never even considered a service via the web for that... 🤔
I'd have ended up buying development chemicals and a red light for my bathroom if I got back into using my film camera (I know how to develop film; but only black and white) 🤣
Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.
Jokes beside i know a few stores with a terminal to print pictures on photo paper cheaply.
Almost no one does film (outside professional/ artists) and i doubt develop many people know how to manually develop their own anymore, even during the golden days of film my dad just brought them to the store who developed the film professionally for you. Thats one store still exists.
I remember being given a camera on summer camp. It had 20 pictures i could take and it cost just as much for a failed or good picture.
stores with a terminal
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Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.
You mean those things you send by email? Don't be so old fashioned.
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Photo albums are kinda meh. You need to First make photos, catalog them in albums, theb take them out and look at them, which we usually don't do. Digital photo frames are cool. They are just there endlessly rotating memories in your living room. Digital photo frames were all the rage some 10+ years ago and people forgot about them now, but they are still a thing and they serve the purpose so well. Regular photo frame holds 1 photo. Digital has enire album. The one I have has actuallynice faux wooden frame so it lookslikeactual photo frame and not like a tablet.
Physical photos have a different feel. You wouldn't look at a piece of art in a museum and think it'd be better digital. It's personal. It's a feeling to open up a book and see the past. You take the time and experience it when you have to flip the pages. Idk, maybe in my 30s, I'm just an old fart
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With albums you get to have a moment to organise memories, and share them with loved ones.
with digital albums? i take pictures and forget they exist.
Realistically you do it once every decade, maybe. With digital frame in a living room, I see photos of my sister, nephews, photos of all the guinea pigs and hamsters I had, of my dog... They just randomly rotate every day and randomly wake up fond memories. It really works.
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Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents' grandparents?
Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.
Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.
I'm going to upset everyone and say I dislike both!
Is that because you lived a life so unremarkable that nobody would want to look at photographs of you, even for historical source material or are you so miserable that you don't want any photographs of yourself because when you look at them all you can see is the pain in your eyes that only you can see through the lie of a smile you use to protect others from knowing the depths of your despair?
Nope, although that's an interestingly bleak take on it!
I find physical albums annoying because they spend the overwhelming majority of their time unseen in a drawer. They have to be protected and unless one has the negatives or an obsessive approach then they are a single point of failure. I want to see the photos and love things like collages. My bedroom wall used to be covered in pics!
I find digital photo frames annoying because they feel like a massive bottleneck. Like looking a the world through a straw.
I don't actually know which approach I feel is sensible for my tastes, just that I don't really like either option.
I'm currently (as in the processing is happening in another tab as I type) collecting my photos together, going back to Q1 2002 so that I'll at least have them in one place (and from there they can be easily backed up). From there I might generate collages or something. I'm not sure what'd be fun, but at least I'll have an API that I can access the data through to try cool shit. Fire up the colour laser printer!
I have an old Mac mini that I installed Ubuntu on to work as a digital frame. It works great and runs its own file server so it is easy to add pictures to.
Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).
We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They're still in business! Though they just offer "Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)" sort of services.
(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)
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