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About cameras and such
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I was going to talk about rss feeds today but a few phlogers
have been talking about cameras lately (Undo, Free Thinker, and
Alex Schroeder) so I thought I'd throw my thoughts into it.
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I don't really like having my picture taken, never have. Even
when I take pictures of myself, the amount is far less then my peers.
this combined with dead hard disks and long deleted social media,
means there are few pictures of me from child hood to now.
The pictures when I was a kid exist because they were taken
on film and then developed onto paper and put in a small box that
lived under the TV. This method of storage turned out to be more
resilient then digital methods.
Now I tend to take pictures with an old but sturdy Polaroid
600. It is extremely expensive ($3 a shot) holds very few blanks,
and requires a lot of light to take photos. But I like it because
the pictures it takes are 100% unique in this world. When the
camera spits it out, thats the only one. You can of course scan it
but it is then clearly an inferior copy, this makes Polaroids a
sort of analog NFT. Some photographers and models well sell
Polaroids separate from the main digital or film shoot for
this reason.
Instant photography is always in a precarious position though,
spectra film was just discontinued, and there is no telling
how long film well remain in production, already the vast majority
of instant cameras are useless. So I enjoy it while I still can.
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btw DON'T shake your Polaroid pictures, thats only for really old
ones.
