as someone intending to buy another Polaroid camera
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tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:42:04 am PST #6510 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 5:44:07 am PST #6511 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the question?
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:45:22 am PST #6512 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's the question?
"Why?"
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 5:47:30 am PST #6513 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because I like them. They have a total spontaneity that other technologies can't match. They're made for snaps that go up on corkboards, or fridges--and honestly, the pictures seem to be more representative to me.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:51:11 am PST #6514 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I see your point - but you can't get the same spontaneity with, say, a digital camera and a portable picture printer (like this [link] Of course, with the digital camera and portable printer, that's two things to carry....
sj - Jan 12, 2006 5:51:23 am PST #6515 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think Polaroids make a great first camera for kids because they get to see the results very quickly.
sumi - Jan 12, 2006 5:52:33 am PST #6516 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
It's really useful to have something where you can see the image quickly.
amych - Jan 12, 2006 6:00:30 am PST #6517 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think Polaroids make a great first camera for kids because they get to see the results very quickly.
This, and I think the same kind spontaneous feeling is why camera phones got so huge so quickly. But you can't watch the picture emerging out of the murky pre-developed plate the way you can with a polaroid, and that's a kind of childhood magic.
I ran across my film SLR while cleaning a few weeks back, and realized that while I haven't used it in ~15 years, I've always brought it along with me because I'd want to have a decent camera rather than a point/shoot at some point; this time, it struck me that I just don't have a place for film in my life any more. I'm always in that market that wants better than a low-end camera, but not serious enough to get, well, serious. And the okay but not great SLR doesn't have a place in the way that a good film camera still would.
Gudanov - Jan 12, 2006 6:05:52 am PST #6518 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Digital SLRs are great, they have physically larger CCDs than non-SLR Digital cameras and this seems to really help image quality even at the same number of megapixels.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 6:08:57 am PST #6519 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think I need a big honkin' digital SLR, and a second digital camera that has lots of features but can be easily carried in a pocket.
Then I feel lame for needing two digital cameras. But I figure this place would be a good place to confess this.