musings

... on an incomplete...

... i was going to say life, but that may be a touch overly dramatic...
i was gonna do a quick review of the year 2008 but that hasn't happened. and other things too, but...

still, this week has been positive so far. yesterday (tuesday) my 30d finally came back, repaired and fully working. i also ordered a new lens for it, a sigma 17-70mm 2.8-4.5 and that came yesterday too. that cheered me up :)
so... time to take some photos, i think. hmm...


this afternoon at work i had one of those... moments that demonstrated to me just how much things are changing between the generations. i took a passport photo of a little boy, probably about five years old. he was polite and well behaved and avoided smiling when put in front of the camera*.
eventually :)
anyway- the point: his mum decided they would wait while i printed the photos and when i handed her the photos she was trying to explain to him what those things in the little yellow boxes in the metal basket were. i am of course talking about kodak film (the fuji was gone...)
it seems odd to me that there's a whole new generation of kids growing up who may never know what photographic film is, indeed may never need to know...
it reminded me of an article i read in... i can't remember where, but the writer was telling of how his daughter was baffled by her inability to navigate through the photos on the screen of his digital camera. because on the iphone she'd just touch the screen, slide her fingers about and stuff happened! but with the camera... you gotta press buttons? god, that is sooo last century!!!
and seriously, iphone or not, i really do believe that the nippers do think that way. while we got really excited about one hour photos they are disappointed with that new mobile phone because, you know, you gave them the wrong one...

... and the camera's only vga...




*children almost always seem perplexed when told not to smile when photographed for their passport photos. unsurprising really, as up to this point every time a camera was pointed at them they were instructed to "smile!"