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December 18 Photos

This ornament was in a stocking gift that Ginger gave me one year and inside it she put a photo of Lloyd and me that was taken in Williamsburg VA the year before.  This reminds me of how much we love photographs now and how easy digital photography has made it to quickly and conveniently take, view, and share photos.
Does anyone else remember these relics of the past:

  1. Film
  2. Threading film into the camera
  3. The new invention of film that just dropped into the camera
  4. Trying not to use up all your film in case you needed it near the end of the trip for that perfect photo
  5. Trying to use up the end of the film after the trip was over
  6. The excitement of Polaroids - no more waiting for developing film
  7. What happened if you didn't let the polaroid picture dry completely
  8. Flash bulbs
  9. Flash cubes
  10. Kodachrome when we finally got rid of black and white photos
  11. Those little picture books that some developers made
  12. Drive through film drop offs
  13. Mailing film for processing
  14. Photo albums
  15. Trying to get photos to stick in  photo albums
  16. Amateur darkrooms
  17. Negatives
  18. Keeping all those negatives and seldom if ever using them
  19. Glossy vs. Matte
  20. Borders vs. no borders
  21. Manual cropping
  22. Unless you had a very expensive camera, no way to account for backlighting
  23. Trying to find uses for 35mm file canisters
  24. The smell of film
  25. Kodak Brownie Camera

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