If you go through old photo albums, not matter how good of condition the photo is, it still looks old and faded. Or at least mine do. Could it be the people in the photos are so much younger than present time, making it, by definition, old and faded? I would have thought digital photos would have taken care of this phenomenon of faded pictures. But now they’re telling me that if I write photos to a CDR, the CDR itself will become unuseable in 5 years. This of course depends on how cheap the CDR is.
Old photos are good. I’ll admit that I took too many photos in high school. Mostly of redundant activities. Rarely got a “good” photo. Now I concentrate on getting the perfect photo, rather than just snapping pictures for the sake of using up film. I hate seeing people take bad photos. I’ve wanted to step in and tell them how to take the photo. And I have before.
I’m thinking about starting a camera collection. I’ve got a digital, 35mm, and 110. I still need to get an underwater camera and one of those Advantex cameras. I still don’t like ’em. Because they are so expensive to develop. But I have heard that you can get a specific number of prints if you have a sophisticated enough camera.
And I need to get a polaroid instantmatic. But I’ve heard that those instant photos have glue in them that go bad. So I might stay away from that brand too.
Oh yeah. Matt H. where are you?