If you went somewhere you had to take a camera. Before digital cameras it was film, and you had only so many pictures, so you had to be judicious. Every once in a while somebody would put a finger over the corner of the lens while shooting, which wasn’t visible in the view finder. So you’d get a big flesh blob in the upper right corner. This happened so often it was a dad joke trope.
If you were on vacation and forgot a camera they actually sold disposable film cameras. They would take shit pictures and the prices were extortionate.
People would collect their best pictures and put them in photo albums. These were like big books with thick sticky pages and film covers. You’d peel back the film and stick on the photo and cover it. They were prized possessions.
Kodak built an entire business on selling photographic film, billions of dollars, industrial giant. They totally missed the transition to digital and basically went bankrupt. No idea what they do now, but it used to be a household name.
Kodak basically took the city of Rochester down with the ship. The folks up there are wonderful but the town is a shell of what it was. It was once basically a mini silicon valley, Bausch and Lomb of the eyeglass and lense fame, Kodak with cameras, Xerox with copiers, and basically all the industry needed to support those global giants. Anything optical owes a great debt to Lil ole Rochester.
You'll still find weird old office machines with "Rochester, NY" in the casting if you know where to look.
If you went somewhere you had to take a camera. Before digital cameras it was film, and you had only so many pictures, so you had to be judicious. Every once in a while somebody would put a finger over the corner of the lens while shooting, which wasn’t visible in the view finder. So you’d get a big flesh blob in the upper right corner. This happened so often it was a dad joke trope.
If you were on vacation and forgot a camera they actually sold disposable film cameras. They would take shit pictures and the prices were extortionate.
People would collect their best pictures and put them in photo albums. These were like big books with thick sticky pages and film covers. You’d peel back the film and stick on the photo and cover it. They were prized possessions.
Kodak built an entire business on selling photographic film, billions of dollars, industrial giant. They totally missed the transition to digital and basically went bankrupt. No idea what they do now, but it used to be a household name.
Kodak basically took the city of Rochester down with the ship. The folks up there are wonderful but the town is a shell of what it was. It was once basically a mini silicon valley, Bausch and Lomb of the eyeglass and lense fame, Kodak with cameras, Xerox with copiers, and basically all the industry needed to support those global giants. Anything optical owes a great debt to Lil ole Rochester.
You'll still find weird old office machines with "Rochester, NY" in the casting if you know where to look.
All true, except that the folks are wonderful
There's shitty people everywhere but I ran into way more nice people in Rochester.
I don't even know what film rolls cost, I just know my parents dragged feet for months on getting new ones if I ran out :deeper-sadness: