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When reading chapter ten, Snap
Shot, I began thinking about cameras, and how much there technology and role in
society has changed since I was a little kid. I remember when I was little my
parents had a camera; of course it took roles of film. Each role of film held
twenty some pictures. When we would go somewhere, or have a family get together,
my mom would come prepared with a couple roles of film to switch out. Even with
that however, you were very careful with what you
photographed, as you were
very limited on how many pictures you could take, and film was expensive. It
was expensive to get the film
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I remember the first time we went to
Disneyland, it was 2001, and they had an hour photo lab on Main Street in the
park. That way a family could develop their film and get the pictures back so
they could see what was on the film before they left. With digital cameras, and
instantly being able to see the image on the camera, that little shop is no
longer. When Digital cameras were just becoming popular, we did not have one,
but my little brother’s friend’s family did. My mom took a picture of them
together in kindergarten in 2003 with our film camera, and his little friend
wanted to “ see it” he didn’t understand that non digital cameras did not have
the ability to call up pictures for viewing. A little earlier, when my brother
was a toddler, my mother went through several roles film trying to get the
perfect picture of us for a Christmas photo to send out with her annual letter.
Of course now, that wouldn’t be an
issue… all we would need is a digital camera with a memory card. I remember in
middle school everyone had digital cameras, and they took them everywhere, even
school. This was true in high school as well. Then all of the sudden with the
creation with the phone. The smart phone had accomplished what the other cellphones before had failed at… it provided a good quality camera, just as good as a digital camera, and an easy way to remove the pictures to a computer. If they just used their digital camera casually before, many people I know don’t even use theirs anymore. The last time I went on a trip, I just used my IPhone as a camera.
As a photographer, I found Bogost's chapter and your post interesting. One this I would have brought up is not only the advance of phone camera technology, but the advance of digital camera technology in general. Six years I begged my parents to help me buy a little point and shoot camera. It was 200$ and it had 8 megapixels. Two years ago I was in the market for a DSLR camera and I happened to look at the price of regular point and shoot cameras. For 200$ I could get twice the megapixels in a smaller camera. I spent 800$ on my DSLR camera and was able to get a really nice one that has lasted me these past two years. When I went from a point and shoot to a DSLR I was amazed of all the things I could go with it that I couldn't with my point and shoot and can't with my iPhone camera. I wonder if someday, DSLR cameras and their lenses will get as small as point and shoot or cell phone cameras.
ReplyDeletePolaroid’s. Specifically a Barbie Polaroid camera. I used to take so many pictures with that thing even though the film was really expensive. There was something fun and exciting about waiting a few seconds to see what your picture was going to be. It was like that scene in the movie National Treasure when they are waiting for the invisible map to appear on the Declaration of Independence. After that I remember using a lot of disposable cameras on my trips. I haven’t really thought about it that much, but it is true that you had to wait until you got your film developed to see if the pictures you took were any good. How did anyone get good photos??? That seems like such a weird concept to me now after I have been using my DSLR camera for so long. I can instantly see the picture as soon as I take it so I can make changes and improve my shot. Another thing that you brought up that I found interesting was the use of camera phones now. They are getting really good especially on the new windows phones, but I would much rather carry around my large camera case and take pictures with that instead of using my phone camera. Instagram has made taking pictures on your phone even more important because you can only upload them on your phone. There is also the convenience of using your cellular device for pictures as well. However, they just don’t produce the same quality of image and you have less control of how the image turns out. Personally I hope the future of cameras does not lie in the development of smart phones.
ReplyDeleteYour comment on film being expensive and limited in number of shots made me think about a very old memory in a new way. When I was a kid, I once had a disposable camera on vacation at my grandparents' house on a lake. Instead of trying to capture the important moments or scenery, of the 20ish possible shots, about 10 are of this little child-sized red wooden chair. They are all unique compositions, capturing that chair from different sides, but I definitely wasn't doing it on purpose. I wasn't operating with an awareness of the medium's limitations, and I don't remember thinking anything was special about the chair at all! For some reason, I just kept coming back to it. However, looking back at the series, which my mom kept in an album, I am struck by how the collection functions as a "snapshot" of what was going on in my brain at the time.
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