Printable View
I have a Canon AE-1. I bought it after one of my [[then infant, now very grown) nephews knocked my Minolta XG-1 over on its tripod and ruined its view finder. I used to shoot rolls of film and could hardly wait until they were developed. I'm almost perfectly set up to create a dark room in my home now, but I can't justify the expense and again, can barely justify the cost of film in the age of digital.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
I use to run back and forth the one hour photo finishing place at least 2-3 times a week. Here in New York, it was Moto-Photo. They use to give me free film.
I've had several Digital cameras. I lost one at Christmas in a movie theater. Another one was packed by movers and I have never seen it again. I was in Vermont in 2012 and bought a Nikon Coolpix. Had that one until 2014 when I was in Beverly Hills, Ca. I was leaning out of the window of my car to get some shot s of the Beverly Hills Hotel and I dropped it out of the window on to the street! Bought a Canon Powershot in LA and have had it every since.
Dag guys,i getting sentimental over here,heck i'm gonna pull out my old[brownie]from[1959]...do they still make film for those???
I highly doubt it........hehehehehehehe!Quote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
I have a Nikon D-400 [[point and shoot) and a Nikon D-40 [[digital SLR) right now. Both are nice for different situations. I'm thinking about buying a couple of professional lenses to make some loot on the side with the SLR.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Last time i checked we had one of those little cardboard thinggies that you throw away after the pic is taken,where did it all go wrong,sigh!!!
Okay, speaking of pictures... Does anybody remember this?
https://www.buyvrguide.com/wp-conten...a_Mattel_4.jpg
^ HELL YES, Jerry! Not only did I have that model, but the one that looked like a little TV as well. I had a cool little collection, including the set for the movie THE WIZ.😀
Do you mean the one that had the little record player on it and raised up the film strip when the record played? We had one of those and I used to love that thing. My favorite Viewmaster slide had dinosaurs on them. I'm a dinosaur geek to this day.
No, but one of my best childhood buddies had that record-player-filmstrip combo. What I had was an actual Viewmaster product; you put the reel inside and the images appeared on a little TV screen. This must’ve been around ‘79-‘80.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Remember it? I think I got one for three Christmases in a row LOL! They had special series of picture disks as I remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
So I take it you were not around when the 'Kenner Close N Play" record players were popular with all the kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by sansradio
I had one of these.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2IgZ0nfc8A
^ I think I caught the tail end of that era. :D
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,marv,you had all the goodies,my grandson has a view-master,one of the very few classic toys still around.
The end? Why isn't it still going on? hehehehehehehehe!Quote:
Originally Posted by sansradio
It really was. It was simply, educational and fun. The Ohio Art Etch-A- Stretch was another of those classic toys that was very durable.Quote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
Remember when dogs were trained to do their business in a special little spot,today these mutts and their sorry owners just drop it anywhere.
That just dredged up memories of playing tackle football as a kid when somebody brought you down and when you stood up, you heard somebody say "uuuuuggggghhhh!" at the same time that you smelled the dog poop that was smeared on your pants or shirt.
I remember in college a pigeon dropped his stuff right on this guy's face near the student union. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aa!!!
Remember when[sunday]was about other stuff but no football Dad was passed out in front of the tv,westerns playing..mom was cooking dinner..we kids were outside playing football not watching...i'm starting a petition to be a kid again..who's with me?? Hehehehehehehe!!!
I am with you. Remember then, most people had black and white TV and there were only three stations LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
Sunday was always about football. My brother and I used to stay up on Saturday nights to watch "NFL Game of the Week" and "NFL Week In Review", which showed the previous weeks highlights. The shows came on at 11:00pm and went off at midnight. I watched Monday Night Football until halftime in school nights so I could see Howard Cosell show the previous day's highlights. If we were lucky enough to avoid going to church on some Sundays, we'd watch highlights of the previous day's Ohio State and Notre Dame games, which just guy me lathered up for the Sunday pro action. It's hard to believe that I might not watch the games next season.
LOL. We had three stations [[NBC 4, ABC 6 and CBS 10). Also had a PBS station. Cable changed the game with another 15-20 stations, with no super stations or specialty networks like CNN, ESPN and MTV. The world began to change quickly after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Boy Jerry, you guys were real modern. We didn't get PBS until 1968! But being that Detroit, Toledo and Canada were so close we got the extra independent stations in Detroit and Southwestern Ontario, which gave us a little more, but still the main 3 channels/networks were NBC 13, CBS 11 and ABC 24. We did get cable until around 1983 or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
I think we got cable around 1975. We got HBO in its first form shortly after and that was great. They would start around 5:00pm and show movies until just after midnight. Their guide was a tiny little booklet that I pored over intently when it arrived with each month's bill. No boxing, comedy specials or series back then. A couple years later, we got Cinemax, which all of my class mates loved because every few weeks, a soft porn movie would pop into the lineup. To be honest, I miss the days of fewer options. I visit the folks once a week and they have more than 200 channels, yet they only watch the same local stations we always watched [[except for ESPN, CNN and which station is showing the Cavaliers game).
1975? Wow~ I don't think I even heard of cable TV until 1981 or around there. I remember in college I saw CNN for the first time when I worked late night at UPS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Consider that most people I know pay $90-$180 per month for it. They tried to take my folks' bundle up to $220 per month [[from $160) until I called and threatened to cancel. They changed it to $130, including phone and internet. I'm a cord cutter who hasn't paid for cable for the past 20 years.
They were charging my Mom $280 for cable, internet and phone. That is more than I pay in New York for the services!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Yep,but those three stations were all we needed,there were few commercials and those shows were soooooo good,well in d.c. There were four[7-9-4-5]in the late sixties we got[channel 20]and count-gore devall.
Attachment 14024
I remember when no one we knew had a television is his or her house, and also, later, when The NFL only televised its Championship game. There were no regular weekly NFL games on TV. So, yes, Sunday was NOT a day of sitting home watching NFL games. I knew that because we visited family in Chicago, in December, before Christmas.
My Pops likes to tell the story of how he saved up money on his first job and bought his family the first TV set in the project that they lived in. He says that there would be a dozen of his friends coming over to watch it. It must have been around 1950 or so. Dad learned the virtue of hard work and saving at a young age. I did, too. It blows my mind that so many people spend more than they make and pay the consequences of it.
Because they don't listen like we did,maybe it's the times and all this technology that kids are exposed to now, we actually sat at the dinner table and heard our parents talk about how hard it was and they explained it to us so by the time we went out in the world we understood,yes we spent more than our parents but we knew how to save some for a rainy day.
I can't speak for others but I was never the one to run out and buy something just because it was the newer version of something that I already have. I still drive a 1991 Honda that I've been blessed to have had since it was new. Haven't had cable since 1997. I buy clothes when I need to because I still like most of what I've had for years. If I'm cheap, I also am happy that I was able to leave a job I didn't want when I was ready to because I didn't spend my overtime for 15 years. I try to tell younger folks not to spend their OT but they still budget for it and wind up owing huge bills when things slow down. I found that by saving money, I have much fewer rainy days than most.
My last bit of financial advice: If you can't afford to give it away, don't lend it to anybody. Some people think that if they spent all of theirs, then you should be happy to share what you didn't spend. Nah, brother. Don't embarrass yourself by asking.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
I know what you mean. I would not buy a CD player until 1990!
LOL. One of my best friends bought a CD player for $800 in 1981. I remember asking why he paid so much for it when it would be half of that price in a year and he told me that he the loot, so he had no desire to wait a year. He was [[and is) good with his money and he loved music, so I was kind of humbled that I would even ask him about it. He was the guy who got me over my stuck up attitude toward jazz, which I didn't listen to until I was in high school. It's my favorite genre of music now.
Heck, I bought my first VCR in 1985. It was so expensive that I had to finance it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Hey marv,i wanted to finance my marriage ceremony...but the guy at the mall said i had to pay the two dollars up front...sigh!!
I have no binocular vision, so when I used to look through the 3D Viewers all I could ever see were two identical photos side by side.