Then: Film Development Now: Digital Delete

Then:   Film Development

Now:   Digital Delete

I currently have hundreds of photos on my digital camera.   In order for my friends to see them , they usually have to put on their reading glasses so that they can actually see what they are looking at.  About once a year or after some big event, I’ll finally take out the memory chip and have them printed up.   And then I’ll put all the photos into a big box.   Oh, I’ll frame a few.  But by the time I have the actual hard copy of the photos, I’ve already looked at them a hundred times on the digital screen.

The other day, I ran out of memory (on my camera) and told my granddaughter that I had to get my pictures developed.   Uh?   She looked at me with this quizzical expression. What does developing mean?   And I realized I was using the wrong terminology.  I corrected myself and told her I meant I had to print them up.

But this got me to thinking about how it used to be.  How I would shoot a roll of 24 or 36 pictures and when the roll was finished, I would  take it immediately to get it  developed.  Way back, this process took at least three to five days.   And the prints with come with jagged edges.  Remember those?  As the years passed,  along came the one hour Photomat.  But now, hey, I’ll wait months, even years to print up my memories.   And then sometimes I can’t remember where the photo was even taken!

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Now I can see the photo within a second of taking it .  Snap.  Let me see!  The camera is passed around the group.  The same pose might be taken five or six times before everyone is satisfied.  Photos are instantly deleted if someone doesn’t  like their smile or if their eyes are half closed or if a hair is out of place.

To me,  that’s a shame.  Some of  those deleted photos are actually the best ones.  The ones which show us how we really were that day.

And getting that roll of developed film and going through the pictures was always so much fun.  It was like reliving that special birthday dinner or that day at the beach a few weeks after the event.  Now we have that dinner, take photos and look at them on our camera only minutes after the dinner is finished.

We’ve become so accustomed to having everything now.  This moment.  It’s all so instantaneous.

Well, I’m going to make a new vow.  From now I’m going to print up my photos the instant the event is over.  No more waiting until the disc is full.

And then maybe I’ll be able to remember where every photo was taken and actually put them into an album.  Maybe.