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07/19/2007 09:16:46 PM · #1 |
Today I took my son to the waterpark. Not wanting to carry around my digital I got a disposable waterproof camera. When I took my first picture my 3-year0old asked to "see it" just like he always does. I had to explain there was no picture to see. Then the "why" game started.
Later I asked him to "smile" and he didn't so after I took the picture he said "just take another" I had to explain I only can take 24 pictures. Then again the why game started.
When we got home he took the camera to the computer and asked to see them. I told him we had to have them developed at the store first. Again "Why". Then he got mad when we left the camer with them.
Other then all the "Whys" I thought it was cute. It funny that to him digital is the only way we take pictures. |
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07/19/2007 09:24:41 PM · #2 |
| LOL, cute! I should try that with my 4 year old niece! She is so used to looking a photos of her on my camera right after I've shot them that sjhe'd probably have the same "why?" reaction if I was to use film. |
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07/19/2007 09:43:35 PM · #3 |
Ah yes! I had that reaction last year at a wedding. Brought along my film camera, and some children were very disappointed that they couldn't see the images on the back of it.
The question I was asked was "What's film?.." |
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07/19/2007 09:49:20 PM · #4 |
| What a great opportunity to give them a lesson in physics, chemistry, history, and economics. |
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07/19/2007 09:52:53 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
What a great opportunity to give them a lesson in physics, chemistry, history, and economics. |
Yeah at 4, look pal its not china lol! |
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07/19/2007 10:13:33 PM · #6 |
| Believe it or not I just went through the whole explanation with my SEVEN year old. It was a little easier to explain but still..... And he's taken pictures with disposable cameras before. It's been a while though. |
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07/20/2007 08:39:48 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
What a great opportunity to give them a lesson in physics, chemistry, history, and economics. |
At 3 we are still working on the basics but I might try and add film into one of our daily lessons.
Its just weird to think that his generation will probily never use film. |
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07/20/2007 08:54:04 AM · #8 |
You know what though - they will. Because no matter how "out dated" or "obsolete" something becomes, there are always the die hard people that want to bring it back.
Vinyl died at the hands of cassettes and cds, and a lot of people who are 40+, probably think the same thing - my generation (24 years old now) will never play a vinyl. But, I currently have about a thousand records, all less then 10 years old. There is always that, often underground, movement that keeps things going, that makes things special.
Film will survive forever, for the same reason that people like vinyl - the idiosyncrasies of it - the scratches, the dust, the pops, etc. |
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07/20/2007 08:54:12 AM · #9 |
LOL Times change.... Mind was confused for a while about the window winder on my old car instead of the button that makes it go up & down.... You have to turn it?? How?? Why??
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07/20/2007 09:14:02 AM · #10 |
Absolutely brilliant story, I was laughing until my stomach hurt.. As a Dad I know all about the WHY game, I can remember the first COLOUR television and how HUGE it was and as a boy I remember seeing the VALVES light up inside the old B&W tele, record players with lids.. hahaha better stop now..
Gotta love technology |
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07/20/2007 09:21:27 AM · #11 |
| Mak - I still rock the record player with the lid on it, except us hip kids call them turn tables and they arent records, they are vinyl lps |
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07/20/2007 09:21:51 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by MAK:
Absolutely brilliant story, I was laughing until my stomach hurt.. As a Dad I know all about the WHY game, I can remember the first COLOUR television and how HUGE it was and as a boy I remember seeing the VALVES light up inside the old B&W tele, record players with lids.. hahaha better stop now..
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Do you still remember the days before they invented fire?
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07/20/2007 09:24:41 AM · #13 |
Similar story with televisions ... in an antique store a couple years ago, there was an old B/W Zenith TV actually on and tuned to a PBS station using rabbit ears. I proceeded to point out to my kids how it had two knobs just get stations (VHF & UHF), a volume knob, the antenna on top, etc. They were floored by the thought of having to get up and cross the room to change the channel or volume, and even then only getting 5-8 channels. Oh, and regarding the B&W picture, they thought the TV was broken at first! LOL.
Even now, though, when we go visit certain friends or my wife's parents, they'll be watching on modern TVs but then they'll ask how to pause it or rewind it -- because our TVs have Tivo, On-Demand, and everything else. :D |
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07/20/2007 09:41:18 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by Creature:
Similar story with televisions ... in an antique store a couple years ago, there was an old B/W Zenith TV actually on and tuned to a PBS station using rabbit ears. I proceeded to point out to my kids how it had two knobs just get stations (VHF & UHF), a volume knob, the antenna on top, etc. |
I remember those. And when the cheap channel knob broke you had to use pliers to change the channel. The REAL lucky people had vice grip pliers that stayed attached to the tv. |
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07/20/2007 09:50:55 AM · #15 |
Anyone else remember going outside to turn the TV antenna to get different stations?
One person would go outside and slowly rotate the antenna, the other person would stay inside and holler "Stop!" when the desired station started coming in.
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07/20/2007 09:57:20 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Anyone else remember going outside to turn the TV antenna to get different stations?
One person would go outside and slowly rotate the antenna, the other person would stay inside and holler "Stop!" when the desired station started coming in. |
I remember installing a rotating motor on the antenna mast, with a long wire leading to a controller inside, with which the antenna could be re-aimed as needed.
For reference, my current TV is a "portable" model which uses inside "rabbit ears" as the antenna. |
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07/20/2007 10:03:58 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Creature:
...only getting 5-8 channels. Oh, and regarding the B&W picture, they thought the TV was broken at first! LOL. |
Yup - Mine don't believe I was 8 when we first got a B&W TV (teenager for colour) and it had 1 (count em) channel. No I am not that old, just grew up in the country :-).
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07/20/2007 10:15:16 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Anyone else remember going outside to turn the TV antenna to get different stations?
One person would go outside and slowly rotate the antenna, the other person would stay inside and holler "Stop!" when the desired station started coming in. |
I remember installing a rotating motor on the antenna mast, with a long wire leading to a controller inside, with which the antenna could be re-aimed as needed.
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Oooooh look at you, all high tech and stuff.
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07/20/2007 10:15:20 AM · #19 |
| Ha Ha...I am getting a kick out of this. I don't know what my son would say if he saw a B&W TV but I know the word "why" would be involved. |
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07/20/2007 10:15:20 AM · #20 |
There is a line of play dolls with American historical themes from Pleasnt Company - very popular with young girls. There is the American revolution, 1940s, Native American, etc.
The new "historical" doll about to be released is from 1974. |
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07/20/2007 10:28:16 AM · #21 |
I know quite a few people that when I show them my dSLR ask me why they can't compose the picture on the screen. When I explain this to them, they go on to say "What a POS! You paid how much for this thing??"
By the way...what's film???
Kidding of course.
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07/20/2007 11:53:50 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Anyone else remember going outside to turn the TV antenna to get different stations?
One person would go outside and slowly rotate the antenna, the other person would stay inside and holler "Stop!" when the desired station started coming in. |
I remember installing a rotating motor on the antenna mast, with a long wire leading to a controller inside, with which the antenna could be re-aimed as needed.
For reference, my current TV is a "portable" model which uses inside "rabbit ears" as the antenna. |
From what I hear, High Def is great received via antenna (and free). I think the antenna is specialized, and hope to get one installed eventually to add some HD channels to those I already get through satellite.
Technology doing a circle ? :-)
Message edited by author 2007-07-20 11:54:24. |
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07/20/2007 12:02:42 PM · #23 |
I've got small AM transmitter that I often use to "stream :-)" radio shows to this:
It's actually a reproduction radio made in the early 70's, but it still gives the feel of the golden days of radio when listening to War of the Worlds :-)
Who cares that the media is actually coming from my computer, instead of a radio station?
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07/20/2007 12:03:31 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
For reference, my current TV is a "portable" model which uses inside "rabbit ears" as the antenna. |
Luddite. |
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07/20/2007 12:05:12 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
I know quite a few people that when I show them my dSLR ask me why they can't compose the picture on the screen. When I explain this to them, they go on to say "What a POS! You paid how much for this thing??" |
Okay, I know my camera's not a POS, but why is it that you can't do that with dSLRs? Just moving into one now, it'd be interesting to know. |
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