Strictly Miscellaneous

[Magenta]

I still have a canon rebel but I havent turned it on in years. Its a film camera.
I'm not sure if our last digital camera even works anymore. I do have a gopro.

Id like to have any of the super zoom cameras. Those things are amazing.

Yeah, I have seen some vids of those super zooms. They are neat.

I had a Canon camera when I was in college. Photography was one of my courses, a three hour class
every Friday nine to noon. That's when I fell in love with darkroom work. I had always liked taking pictures.
But darkroom work was a totally different experience. But my Canon was too heavy and cumbersome.

When I started my first lab job, they sold camera equipment, and I bought a Rolleiflex camera with a wide angle
35 mm Zeiss lens on it. That was the one with no light metre and no hot shoe for flash. It was great; had it for years.

On average I would say I used to shoot a roll of 36 exposures every week, and on holiday, a roll a day.

I got my developing and prints for free LOL. By the late 80s I had to slow down: I had way too many pics!!!

 

[Zandar]

Magenta, do you think industry will continue to keep film developement available? I think Fuji still makes the disposable cameras.

 

[Magenta]

Magenta, do you think industry will continue to keep film developement available? I think Fuji still makes the disposable cameras.

Kodak is not going to be making any more paper soon. Film in photography will be like vinyl in the music industry LOL.
When digital first came in, it was terrible from what I saw. It seemed nobody really knew what they were doing, and
everything was all pixelated. I had worked printing professional photographer's work for ten years and then went to
printing all the 35 mm amateur stuff for about ten years, which I preferred because it was much more interesting than
portraiture and weddings. Then digital came in and BOOM, people could edit what they gave us. In way it was good:
I only saw the best of what anyone wanted printed. I am talking about my current job, because before that I was printing
35mm amateur for five years (at my second lab job). Film they give me every exposure, and most of them are under.
Hopefully people will keep shooting film. A good portion of what we handle is still black and white, too .
Still, almost everyone gets scans of their negs. Many don't even want the negs after that .. We shred a lot of them.

I have been digital printing for 20 years now, not counting the time I was laid off with covid closures.

 

[Magenta]

I think Fuji still makes the disposable cameras.

We will have to switch to Fuji paper once Kodak stops manufacturing paper.
Apparently we were using Fuji paper for a while when I was laid off. Any who,
those disposable cameras are awful. Ha. The lenses are too wide and the flash
too weak. People use them at weddings and the pics are mostly .

 

[Eli1]

@Magenta , since covid started, i have slowly scanned all my family pictures and converted them into digital.
I did a similar project like this about 10 years ago where i converted all my VHS tapes into digital.
Right now i am working on scanning some more pictures and converting and writing my family tree into a digital format so i can leave it to my kids.

Glad to see that you've been a photo enthusiast too and i also used to shoot a lot of pictures on film.
However, i am converting everything to digital because that's the way to go. Paper gets old and breaks. I see photos in my family which are almost a century old and i have to pick them up carefully with gloves so i don't ruin them before i scan.

 

[Zandar]

My dad has some really old negatives that are in metal cans. ive looked at them when i was a teen. i need to find them again. i think they were from the 50s.

 

[Zandar]

maybe older than that. my dad said they were from a family around here that at the time was the only one here that had a camera.

 

[Magenta]

@Magenta , since covid started, i have slowly scanned all my family pictures and converted them into digital.
I did a similar project like this about 10 years ago where i converted all my VHS tapes into digital.
Right now i am working on scanning some more pictures and converting and writing my family tree into a digital format so i can leave it to my kids.

Glad to see that you've been a photo enthusiast too and i also used to shoot a lot of pictures on film.
However, i am converting everything to digital because that's the way to go. Paper gets old and breaks. I see photos in my family which are almost a century old and i have to pick them up carefully with gloves so i don't ruin them before i scan.

Those sound like very involved projects: a lot of work but well worth the while! Properly processed photographs
can last well over a hundred years when handled with care and not overly exposed to contaminants or sunlight etc.

I should digitize some of the family negs and photos my mother gave me many years ago. I did print
many of them and sent copies to my siblings, but unfortunately that was just before digital came in.

How far back into your family history does your tree go? Did you do all the research yourself?
My twin brother has been digging into our family tree for quite a while and gone back hundreds
of years further once he accessed the LDS data base. They allow people to store unfinished
work there too, so there is all the official family lines and then a lot of unfinished lineages.
We have learned a lot of interesting stories about our family this way.

 

[Eli1]

Those sound like very involved projects: a lot of work but well worth the while! Properly processed photographs
can last well over a hundred years when handled with care and not overly exposed to contaminants or sunlight etc.

I should digitize some of the family negs and photos my mother gave me many years ago. I did print
many of them and sent copies to my siblings, but unfortunately that was just before digital came in.

How far back into your family history does your tree go? Did you do all the research yourself?
My twin brother has been digging into our family tree for quite a while and gone back hundreds
of years further once he accessed the LDS data base. They allow people to store unfinished
work there too, so there is all the official family lines and then a lot of unfinished lineages.
We have learned a lot of interesting stories about our family this way.

It is very involved and time consuming, but i take it slowly and do it during times which i spend more times indoors, like in winter mostly. But, i do have time to write about the family tree when it's a nice sunny day like this summer and i stay outside in patio when i'm not doing anything. So it's about chipping away, enjoying yourself and creating something nice for the next generation in the family.
The VHS project took me more than a year. The family pictures scanned so far (about 10,000 of them) have taken almost 2 years of covid time since it started and i'm still not done. I think i have about 3000 more at least.

As far as the family tree goes, I can trace my family tree with documents at around year 1400 , but before that, historically the region is as old as ancient Greece (i'm from Albania) so historical documents show the people from my region to be as old as ancient Greece basically. They have archeological findings for these claims but like i said, with my documents, i can trace my family tree up to and around 1400 because prior to that, i don't have any documents linking me to my ancestors.

The main research of my family tree was done by my grandfather, who back in his day was a high ranking official in the government/military so he had access to a lot of documents and archives which he passed down to us.

Some of the photographs of my great great grandfather are basically close to a century old. They were printed around 1920s i think according to the handwritten notes on the back of the picture.

Being a Geek myself, i envision some day we will be able to look back in time at Jesus Himself. It's all theoretical but i like thinking about it. I also think that maybe God Himself won't allow it or there is some rule in the universe which blocks us from doing that but the thought process is like this:

1. The universe is a time machine. When we look at the sun, we're looking at it as it was 8 minutes ago. So when we look at a star we look at it as it was 1000 light years ago.
2. So if we invent some means to travel faster than light, we would go about 2000 light years away from earth.
3. From there we would point a telescope with the type of camera which has the ability to see fine detail on the planet and then we would be able to see Jesus Himself.

I think God, has some rule to block this from happening but it's a nice thought since it's theoretically possible.

 

[Zandar]

Bikes are time machines, a wise man once said.

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

I was born in one of these years and it wasn't 2023.

Well, I don't think it was 1927, or 1939 either.

 

[Zandar]

I never really paid much attention to the chinese 12 year cycle until I started playing a Japanese video game 10 years ago. They have the new year celebration every year on that game and I usually get an item from it.\


My grandmother was born in 1920. She gave me a text book from school a few years ago and I treasure that thing. I think it was printed in the 30s. Its a home economics book.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

They have a way of knowing If a top secret classified document has been photo copied. If a copy Was made why would someone have wanted to make a copy unless they Intended to share It.

 

[Underwhosewings]

@Magenta , since covid started, i have slowly scanned all my family pictures and converted them into digital.
I did a similar project like this about 10 years ago where i converted all my VHS tapes into digital.
Right now i am working on scanning some more pictures and converting and writing my family tree into a digital format so i can leave it to my kids.

Glad to see that you've been a photo enthusiast too and i also used to shoot a lot of pictures on film.
However, i am converting everything to digital because that's the way to go. Paper gets old and breaks. I see photos in my family which are almost a century old and i have to pick them up carefully with gloves so i don't ruin them before i scan.

How about converting
cassette tapes to mp3,
that’s fun. I did so many.

 

[Eli1]

How about converting
cassette tapes to mp3,
that’s fun. I did so many.

Yes, i've done that too and i also converted all my CDs with music into a digital format too. I like change and i like moving along with change while also being grateful for all the great times i've had in the past and for the blessed life i experienced.

 

[Underwhosewings]

Yes, i've done that too and i also converted all my CDs with music into a digital format too. I like change and i like moving along with change while also being grateful for all the great times i've had in the past and for the blessed life i experienced.

When we were young school kids, dad and mum used to take us all over the country side.
Uncle always had his video camera going.
So each time holiday travelling was finished, uncle would come on the weekend to show the video, projected onto a screen.
But it was hilarious when he played it again, backwards.

 

[Zandar]

ive converted some vhs tapes, wedding, graduations, birthdays and Christmas plays

 

[GaryA]

They have a way of knowing If a top secret classified document has been photo copied.

Could/Would you please obtain a photo copy of the top secret classified document that proves this?

(just kidding)

If a copy Was made why would someone have wanted to make a copy unless they Intended to share It.

"insurance"

 

[seed_time_harvest]

seed_time_harvest said:
They have a way of knowing If a top secret classified document has been photo copied.

QUOTE="GaryA, post: 5100069, member: 287815"]Could/Would you please obtain a photo copy of the top secret classified document that proves this?

seed_time_harvest said:You would have to ask the person that has/had/copied them.😉

(seed_time_harvest said:
If a copy Was made why would someone have wanted to make a copy unless they Intended to share It.

"insurance"[/QUOTE]

seed_time_harvest said:😂😂😂😂😂
Why would a person Insure that If they lost TOP SECRET documents that they would have another copy like If you lost them It's ok I have another copy.
😂😂😂😂😂

That's why other countries laugh at the United States,because those In charge probably WOULD take something like that as If It were a password to their bank account or something.

 

[Zandar]

this is europa park germany