I was transferring some pictures on a memory stick and I can’t help but be amazed by how far we have come in terms of technology. Ten years ago, taking and keeping photographs is a very expensive hobby and usually only for very special and rare occasions. You have to get it right the first time- no margin for error on taking shots, which normally is only limited to a mere 36. Of course digital cameras are starting to come out then but it wasn’t for everyone. These days, everyone has a camera phone. You can virtually take any picture of any moment, be it worth remembering or not. I don’t know if that’s a good thing but nobody would argue that that is a lot of fun.
I remember those times when i have to run to the nearest developing center, get excited and at the same anxious at the possibility that the negatives got damaged somehow. Remember how your mothers will forbid you to touch the prints? They have to be kept in an album, each page with a plastic protector, for posterity, and then when people go to your homes they will look at those albums and you’ll fondly share the memories? There’s not much need for that now. Everything’s kept digitally. It’s lasting (at least as long as you don’t accidentally delete the files) but somehow less personal. It all comes too easy now. It’s all cool; I’m not complaining. Maybe I’m just missing how things have more worth when they’re not that easy to acquire.
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