Monday, January 23, 2006
Blogging with photos
Just a note to other bloggers out there using digital cameras.
I know it's hard to believe for you young people, but there was a time when we didn't have digital cameras yet. We actually had to use cameras that had this thing called film. You had to know what kind of film your camera took so you got the right film at the store. You had to load the film carefully into your camera, without dropping it or exposing too much of it and advance it just right. At times, espcially when you were trying to hurry, this was a difficult thing to do without either dropping the film or the camera. It was during this non digital camera time that you actually missed shots of "the perfect picture" because you weren't able to get the camera ready on time. There were also those moments in the middle of taking phots that you ran out of film. At this time, you had to stop what you were doing, sit down, rewind your film, take it out, put it in the canister, open the new film, (that's assuming you had some more film and weren't out), load it into the camera, advance the film to the right spot, which was three clicks on my camera, then you were ready. Think of all the picutres you missed during that time it took to get all of that accomplished!!! (This is going to give me nightmares to relive it again!!) Rolls of film came in exposures of 12, 24, 36 or 72 ... depending on how many photos you were planning on taking. This was important, because you had to complete the roll of film before you took it in to be developed. If you knew you were only taking a few pictures, you bought a small roll. If you knew you were taking lots of pictures, you bought a large roll so you wouldn't have to be changing film all the time and miss some perfect picture moments. Then you got the film developed. Developed? What's that? Well, after you had used all of the film, you had to rewind it, take it carefully out of the camera and put it in a little container to store it safely. You then took it to the store and put it in an envelope you had filled out and then leave it to be developed. You then came back a week later to pick up your pictures. It was at that time you found out if any of your photos didn't turn out and that was always disappointing. It was also at this time you found out if the lighting was all right or not. It's for this very reason that those of us who went through this very hard time are still in the habit, even with our digital cameras, of taking "one more" everytime we take a picture of you or someone else. We're still in the habit of taking that "one more" picture just in case the other one didn't turn out. Old habits are hard to break!!!!
Anyway, what I wanted to express is ... I have dozens of photo albums full of pictures that I would love to have on the blog. If you find yourself in the same boat, either scan them into the computer and then you can post them, or if you don't have a scanner, you can do what I've been doing. I've been using my digital camera to actually take pictures of my pictures. Then put in the computer and then on a disk. You don't have to leave out anything just because it's on the wrong media. I do have a scanner ... it's just faster to snap a picutre of it. Whatever works!
I know it's hard to believe for you young people, but there was a time when we didn't have digital cameras yet. We actually had to use cameras that had this thing called film. You had to know what kind of film your camera took so you got the right film at the store. You had to load the film carefully into your camera, without dropping it or exposing too much of it and advance it just right. At times, espcially when you were trying to hurry, this was a difficult thing to do without either dropping the film or the camera. It was during this non digital camera time that you actually missed shots of "the perfect picture" because you weren't able to get the camera ready on time. There were also those moments in the middle of taking phots that you ran out of film. At this time, you had to stop what you were doing, sit down, rewind your film, take it out, put it in the canister, open the new film, (that's assuming you had some more film and weren't out), load it into the camera, advance the film to the right spot, which was three clicks on my camera, then you were ready. Think of all the picutres you missed during that time it took to get all of that accomplished!!! (This is going to give me nightmares to relive it again!!) Rolls of film came in exposures of 12, 24, 36 or 72 ... depending on how many photos you were planning on taking. This was important, because you had to complete the roll of film before you took it in to be developed. If you knew you were only taking a few pictures, you bought a small roll. If you knew you were taking lots of pictures, you bought a large roll so you wouldn't have to be changing film all the time and miss some perfect picture moments. Then you got the film developed. Developed? What's that? Well, after you had used all of the film, you had to rewind it, take it carefully out of the camera and put it in a little container to store it safely. You then took it to the store and put it in an envelope you had filled out and then leave it to be developed. You then came back a week later to pick up your pictures. It was at that time you found out if any of your photos didn't turn out and that was always disappointing. It was also at this time you found out if the lighting was all right or not. It's for this very reason that those of us who went through this very hard time are still in the habit, even with our digital cameras, of taking "one more" everytime we take a picture of you or someone else. We're still in the habit of taking that "one more" picture just in case the other one didn't turn out. Old habits are hard to break!!!!
Anyway, what I wanted to express is ... I have dozens of photo albums full of pictures that I would love to have on the blog. If you find yourself in the same boat, either scan them into the computer and then you can post them, or if you don't have a scanner, you can do what I've been doing. I've been using my digital camera to actually take pictures of my pictures. Then put in the computer and then on a disk. You don't have to leave out anything just because it's on the wrong media. I do have a scanner ... it's just faster to snap a picutre of it. Whatever works!
