photographs......film vs digital.

[tphoyt]

I have several box’s of my mothers Polaroids.
She loved those cameras. I found a Kodak 110 in one of the box’s years ago and tried to get it developed but the something had happened to the film and they were not able to make it happen. I do enjoy looking through photos.

 

[dwco5051]

My grandfather and father both had a bunch of glass plate negatives which I still have. My previous father in law served 30 years in the Army and was also a photography nut. I had boxes of negatives from his Crown Graphic of which most were lost during a hurricane. I had saved several before that happened and here is my favorite. Generals Wainwright, Eisenhower, and Admiral Leahy doing an inspection of a base in Panama shortly after WWII ended as they all knew the importance of the Canal in any future conflict.

 

[Scott Danforth]

grew up with the 126 cartridge cameras (because they were cheap and fit in the pocket) in the 80's along with 35mm cameras.

Had an uncle that was a member of the local photo club since he was a teen, a cousin followed and did photography for the local news paper. old single use flash bulbs, flash cubes, xenon strobes. My uncle was partial to his vertical viewfinder cameras from the 70's and 80's with more adjustment knobs than the dash of the space shuttle

Dad had a fuji and a pentax with a dozen lenses.
cousin had a bunch of nikons with about 30 lenses

I did the SLR cameras as soon as they fell below $500 in the early 90's Ex wife killed most of them

film is "warmer" however limited to the equivalent of 14megapixels in resolution. today, my phone has a better camera quality and shoots 4k video. but it just feels wrong and disconnected compared to lining up that one shot and the mechanical "click...click....click" of the shutter

 

[bajaman123]

My grandmother had half a storage unit full of pictures and slides. Most pictures she left behind were of people and places long since lost from memory.

Truth being, most pictures will never see the light of day after the collage comes down after your funeral.

I see this every time my wife and I go 'antiquing'...browsing thrift stores and the like...one often comes across photos from the past, and yes, that picture MEANT something to someone at some time. Now just cast aside, not even a memory anymore. So sad.