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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just tell me where the dang hammers are

[–] onlyhall@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I just want a picture of a got dang hammer!

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

somehow while reading this i thought she meant picture frames and wanted to tell her they're by the wall art

[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One of my sisters, who is the unofficial archiver of the family, kept the photo albums when my parents passed. However I kept another treasure: the Rolleiflex camera that recorded our childhoods.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you from the 19th century or something?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Who among us isn’t?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)

With your powers combined you can take and store a photo. I hope you have a third sibling who inherited the dark room.

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The 4th sibling does have a dark room, but they misunderstood the assignment...

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Lawyer: and here is your share of the inheritance

Flicks off light switch

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Blacklight raves? Creepy sex dungeon? Mushroom farming?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of my better Tuesdays this month, even!

[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We do have a 3rd sibling, but alas, she has no dark room. Also, not sure you can find 120 film these day.

[–] AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh you totally can. Costs more than it used to, but they're still making it!

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know that camera very well i high poly 3d modelled it as part a midterm project and its by far my most favourite thing i ever modelled.

I am not sure if i still have an easily accessible pic of it though since i long deleted my fb.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I got married in the aughts, just a few years after Outkast came out with the song Hey Ya, which was a super popular song. Anyway, my wife and I had a Polaroid camera and thought it would be fun to leave it out with a bunch of film so our wedding guests could take pictures of the night for us.

So we went to Target to buy film and ask a teenager working there if they sold Polaroid film. They had no idea what we were talking about. I said remember asking my wife, "So what do you suppose they think that line 'shake it like a Polaroid picture' means?"

That teenager would be in their mid-30s by now...

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The aughts?? Surely that must have been a particularly ignorant teen, or they were messing with you. High quality phone cameras were far from ubiquitous then. My phone had a camera but I was still buying disposable ones at CVS before going on trips so I could get high quality photos all the way through the aughts. And if that teen is in their mid 30s now, I'm still younger than them...

[–] marighost@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm 29 and we had a Polaroid at our wedding three years ago. That teenager must've been living under a rock.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

In the time period they were referencing Polaroids were at risk of extinction because only one company was making the film at one plant and only through the complaining of hipsters were you able to have Polaroids at your wedding.

2001 Polaroid went bankrupt. 07-08 cameras and film stopped production.

2010 a hipster group restarted production.

2020 new Polaroid cameras are introduced.

Many younger people only know Polaroids as an icon in a video game or a prop from a music video; they don't know what they are called.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're kind of forgetting about digital cameras. Looking back, I was on my 3rd or 4th digital camera at the time - and Polaroid had been bankrupt for years.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I didn't mean good digitals didn't exist, but that analog camaras were still very common. And they were. The overwhelming majority of teens in the aughts would know very well what polaroid was

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You print out your pictures?

Or you still use film? Do you develop it yourself? Cuz I don't even know where you'd do that these days outside of the rare specialty place. The nearest one to me is a 3 hour drive. 😮‍💨

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We do. They were printed from a print service that ships them to you. We do physical albums because I find it easier to hand to visitors than handing them my phone or trying to curate albums I can share digitally. Also don't have to manage who has access to my digital albums.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

My dumb old ass never even considered a service via the web for that... 🤔

I'd have ended up buying development chemicals and a red light for my bathroom if I got back into using my film camera (I know how to develop film; but only black and white) 🤣

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.

Jokes beside i know a few stores with a terminal to print pictures on photo paper cheaply.

Almost no one does film (outside professional/ artists) and i doubt develop many people know how to manually develop their own anymore, even during the golden days of film my dad just brought them to the store who developed the film professionally for you. Thats one store still exists.

I remember being given a camera on summer camp. It had 20 pictures i could take and it cost just as much for a failed or good picture.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

stores with a terminal

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.

You mean those things you send by email? Don't be so old fashioned.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

na that kid just dumb, parents or caretakers didn’t know how to decorate clearly lol

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah this is how I feel.

I get that the world is moving forward and I might be okd and whatever but I think that a physical photo album is still part of assumed general knowledge in 2025.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

More likely that monica is dumb. The photo labs are usually next to the electronics sections.

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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Relatable except for still shopping at Target 😝

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*while shoplifting at Target

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

don't risk gettin lost in the penal system while you piss away thousands on parole and years on cycles of parole violations just so you can steal some worthless garbage meant to fuel consumerism, even if you're sticking it to a disingenuous lying shit hole company

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I love this comment! But we should definitely be fighting hard against the mass criminalization of shoplifting. They’ll send pigs out for a $5 lipstick.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I got my first photo album in the early 90s when my parents gave me a Polaroid camera! Somehow I have now inherited my grandparents photo albums with pictures going back to the 1940s to the 80s when I was a kid and I love looking through them even though I don't know who all of the people are. It's a MUCH different experience than swiping through images on a phone and it makes me sad that younger people might never experience that

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

plentyofthingshappenjustnotthis

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

whyisntthisspecificallylikelytohappen

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).

We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They're still in business! Though they just offer "Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)" sort of services.

(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago
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