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Living in a digital world

I often forget how much I love modern technology.  It seems like you never appreciate what you have until it is not there.  Case in point, my digital camera.  It is not broken, but I left the recharger cord at my moms.  Well, my batteries went dead, and we had a fun little adventure this last weekend.  I was sooo sad not to have my camera, so I did the unthinkable.  I used a FILM camera.  I haven't used it in years though, and the batteries were dead.  As it turns out the batteries were about $15.  
We spent the weekend in SLC with my in-laws.  The kids had so much fun ridding the elevator, swimming in the hotel pool and exploring every nook and cranny in the hotel room.  The next morning we went to the Discovery Center and the Gateway.  The kids had a blast, and they were so cute.  
I wanted to capture all the fun memories, so I pulled out my old camera.  It was so hard.  I couldn't see what I was taking a picture of, you only get one shot, and the camera was big and bulky.  My brother in law saw me snapping pictures and looking at me quizzically.  "Is that a FILM camera?" he asked.  Sheepishly I said it was.  He just laughed.
So as it turns out I lugged around that old camera, spent more money on batteries, and I still have to develop the film to see if I even have any good pictures.  How did we live before?

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Rachel said…
We had a day like that when we went to Disney World! I found 4 rolls of film when I was cleaning out the closet and I figured I'd get them used up, which we did all in the first day! After i went through all that film, I threw away the camera! People were looking at me. :) Anyway, after all that, only about half of the pictures are keepers. We are so spoiled!
May 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Orange said…
I won't have you slammin' the film. I still rely on the extremely old-school manual SLR I have to get much better pictures than you can sometimes get with digital.

But ya, for most things it would be annoying and expensive.

Just had to argue- glad you had an adventure. We were in West Valley and thought of you guys.
May 27, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Terésa said…
Well, I can totaly relate! When my digital camera broke I didn't know how to function... "Shouldn't a camera be in my hand?" ;)
May 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Seleta said…
I totally agree- we rely on so much now a days! if i lost my cell phone i think i would die!
June 10, 2008 at 7:49 AM
The Harrison Family said…
Ha Ha, I still have my old camera too. Not only that, I am constantly finding roles of film in odd places and developing them only to get pictures that I would have never needed. Who knew that I took such bad photos.
June 11, 2008 at 3:33 PM
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