msmemory_archive: (palm tree)
msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2007-12-26 02:56 pm

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Growing up, I had a little Instamatic camera, and getting one roll of pictures developed and printed so I could see how they looked cost me $5-$7 in 1978 dollars. I didn't do lots of experimentation - there's nothing like listening to the grumpy parent whose head is cut off in the picture and who has to pay for printing my beginner's mistakes.

I'm feeling rather giddy still (and my flist is probably going to have to listen to me burble for a while) that I can take thousands of pictures, throw away the iffy or repetitive ones, and not spend any money at all on development or printing. I might even get good at composition and eye.

And make as many new icons as I like, too (like this palm tree one).

[identity profile] kls-eloise.livejournal.com 2007-12-26 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It took me longer to get hooked on that. My brother gave us our digital camera just before we went to Ireland in 2004. Over the course of four days, I took 200 or so pictures. The following year we went to Salt Lake City for my cousins wedding, and I took 400 or so in two days because I'd finally figured out that I should just take pictures and sort them out later. What fun!

But they're just not the same quality as my 1976 era 35mm takes, which is why I just got the light meter repaired so that it can go for another 30 years. (That one, however, doesn't fit in my purse!)