Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for October 27, 2016

Does anybody miss the one-hour developing photographs (like at, say, Rite-Aid)?

How can these kids be so far behind the times. I take a picture with my iPod, it’s uploads to the cloud, downloads to my PC and also available on my tablet. It’s all automatic.

The only problem I have is finding which dang folder they went to.

I guess she’s using an actual camera camera, not a phone camera…or tablet or iPod.

I know people who do that cos they can use different lenses and such…..

but it seems odd for a kid.

Or maybe…. gosh….

maybe she doesn’t have a phone????

Nah…. that can’t be it.

Besides, a lot of stand-alone cameras now, even cheap ones a kid might own, have wifi,

so you can upload straight to Google Drive…..

or Instagram or Facebook or e-mail, at a touch.

Templo…. with all that instant access to your pictures available, why would you miss 1-hour developing?

OK….

puff puff…..

I just ran over to Facebook, to get a little exercise and pick up Tony’s question:

It was simply “Technology?”

Well… for me, yes, Tony….and for x_Tech……

but only somewhat for Maria…..and I’m not sure about Templo.

Why couldn’t she just show him the pictures on her camera/phone directly? I do that a lot.

Then again I also carry a digital camera for when a tablet or an iPod just won’t cut it. That plus a USB cable to cross load to my tablet and I’m all set.

Sure beats my old Brownie Box Camera. Had to wait until my dad got around to developing the film. Not to mention getting film from him.

I think digital photography is great. I save a lot of money on film and development costs. Especially since the majority of the photos I take are lousy. A word of caution about digital photos. Many photographing devices are GPS enabled. The GPS location is stored with the exif data of the photo. So if you post your picture unscrupulous people can find out where you live and what wonderful gifts you got for xmas, etc. There are way to prevent or remove this data. http://www.howtogeek.com/203592/what-is-exif-data-and-how-to-remove-it/

Technology? Sure.

I guess I am into technology. I have 1 of each phone, computor, and ipad!!!

The only way to take pictures. No uploading, no downloading.

Technology? I have a computer and a digital camera. That’s it. No cell phone, no Instagram, no Facebook. The only appliance I’d rather not lose is my blender; everything else I could do without.

I inherited a SLR digital camera that i haven’t taken the time to learn how to use….yet. I used to enjoy taking photographs when film was the media. The trouble was to get good photographs, you had to burn film. It got expensive to a poor boy. I wonder if you can get the same effects by adjusting aperture and shutter speed on a digital camera that you could with film. I also would acquire out of date film and get some interesting results.

@Tony:

No, I’m a human being. And now, it’s time for today’s…

Second “Daddy’s Home” Question:

Do you miss Polaroids? (Aren’t Polaroids what they use Preparation H for in the Arctic? Okay, I’ll duck now…)

I remember during WW II it was hard to find any film.

Sigh, I miss the good old days when you actually had to frame a shot and make sure you had it right before you snapped the picture. Film wasn’t cheap, you had a limited number of shots you could take on a roll, photos were way better, and there was nothing wrong with waiting a few days to get the film processed and printed to paper!

Sigh…

I was at a wake for someone recently, and as is typical the family had gathered all their photos showing the deceased’s living experiences, posted on easels. Maybe the funeral home does the arranging, or maybe the family, but I wonder how they will assemble photographic memories in the future without prints. A slide show on a computer somehow isn’t as accessible, showing only one or two pics at a time.