[rollei_list] 80 year olds and digital
- From: Mark Kronquist <mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:05:35 -0700
Trade you parents. My 80 year old (and very active)father just "borrowed my D3
for a vacation leaving me his D200...me thinks I need to trade 80 somethings...
On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Don Williams wrote:
> At 05:41 PM 10/4/2010, David wrote:
>> Over lunch yesterday, we took pictures with a digital camera. My
>> 82-year-old mother asked me how we develop the film.
>>
>> I said, that's the beauty part- no developing, then I showed her the picture
>> immediately.
>>
>> I recall years ago I would go on a vacation and it would cost me $100 or
>> more just to develop the film. Then I would look at the pictures and say,
>> why did I take that one? What was I thinking?
>>
>> Digital photography has "developed" to the point where there is no turning
>> back. And it's already starting to inspire new and improved camera designs.
>
> I now have just the opposite problem. Whenever I go out with a digital
> camera I often take several shots of the same thing, often with the intent
> [at the moment] that one of them shows something the others doesn't show- for
> example something of importance just peeking around from behind a structure,
> or I notice the horizon isn't level, whatever . . .
>
> When I get back from just a short drive around town or some sort of family
> meeting or sporting event and load the 400 or so images into my computer I
> have no real idea of which ones were taken with and what the specific intent.
>
>
> Result, hundreds of numbered images, just a number, date and time stamp, and
> often with the exposure information embedded in the file.
>
> What does one do? Cull them down? Save them all just in case you might
> through the perfect one out?
>
> Did I take a second (or third) shot of some grandchild because she or he said
> "Take another one, I blinked", or "Wait, while I comb my hair" or any of a
> dozen reasons to cover the shot. Which is the right one? Maybe one kid
> wants one and the other wants another. What if I delete one that someone
> wants?
>
> Even more wild, when I go back to San Diego to visit, there are always one or
> more parties, graduations, dinners, whatever. Someone grabs my camera and I
> get it back an hour or so later, with a hundred shots added to it, some are
> shots of folks I don't even know (particularly when the party is at the
> Porteguese Hall or some similar place).
>
> In the olden days you could have a set of prints made, 12 or 36 negatives,
> pass them around and have each person indicate what prints they wanted. That
> just doesn't work with 400 shots that exist only in the camera or in the
> computer.
>
> My final solution is to post them on my Internet Vendor's "Media Store and
> Share" site and let them pick what they want. Been doing that for 4 years
> now, one for each trip back to San Diego. Seems to work just fine. Before
> then my daughter with the computer that reads cards used to grab my camera,
> pull a card, and copy everything into her system. Now we don't have to do
> that.
>
> Things have really changed in recent years.
> Sincerely,
>
> Don Williams
>
> Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Why Me?"
>
> Then a voice answers, "Nothing Personal. Your name
> just happened to come up."
>
> Charlie Brown
>
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