Taking photos
August 5th 2007 21:14
What a difference it’s made to our travels this time around to have a digital camera. When we went to Rome for our honeymoon in 1974, we had a Super 8 movie camera that would take only three minutes of film before it conked out and you‘d have to put a new reel in. An expensive approach to holiday mementos.
But these days we shoot whatever we want and get rid of whatever we want when we check the photos out on the computer. And we seldom print anything out. I know some people don’t like looking at photos on the computer, but if my ancient mother could do it (in the days before she died) then I think most people can.
I don’t particularly crave anything different to what I’ve got - a camera that was expensive when it came out but has been superseded a number of times since - though I’d quite like a camcorder one of these days. There are times when a snapshot just won’t do, when you see a landscape and long to pan around it, for instance, or when grandchildren and great-nieces and nephews are doing crazy kid things. My son sent me a very short clip the other day of my youngest grandchild taking some very basic steps (with the aid of a coffee table). A snapshot would never have conveyed the movement, the thought processes, the reaching out for the remote control his father was holding, the final moment of triumph - and then the topple as he let go of the table!
In the meantime I’ve been checking out Nikon digital cameras online: the prices range over the gamut of possibilities, from US$99.99 to $3799. Since we’re saving the pennies these days to make sure we have enough to keep us fed and watered while we’re in the UK for another four months, the camera might have to wait.
But these days we shoot whatever we want and get rid of whatever we want when we check the photos out on the computer. And we seldom print anything out. I know some people don’t like looking at photos on the computer, but if my ancient mother could do it (in the days before she died) then I think most people can.
I don’t particularly crave anything different to what I’ve got - a camera that was expensive when it came out but has been superseded a number of times since - though I’d quite like a camcorder one of these days. There are times when a snapshot just won’t do, when you see a landscape and long to pan around it, for instance, or when grandchildren and great-nieces and nephews are doing crazy kid things. My son sent me a very short clip the other day of my youngest grandchild taking some very basic steps (with the aid of a coffee table). A snapshot would never have conveyed the movement, the thought processes, the reaching out for the remote control his father was holding, the final moment of triumph - and then the topple as he let go of the table!
In the meantime I’ve been checking out Nikon digital cameras online: the prices range over the gamut of possibilities, from US$99.99 to $3799. Since we’re saving the pennies these days to make sure we have enough to keep us fed and watered while we’re in the UK for another four months, the camera might have to wait.
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