I hear film cameras are coming back into fashion.
Yep. Some of my wedding photographers specialize in film in addition to digital as that type of photography is in vogue right now.
I still remember when it was popular to put a disposal cameras on wedding reception tables for guests to shoot candid shots... now with everyone having camera phones in their hand every waking hour, it's hard to get people to put them down for a few minutes to eat their cake!
@Julie808 More cake for the rest of the people.
I came across a Kodak Brownie in a thrift store years ago and immediately bought it. Of course there was no packaging, let alone film. But it still reminds me.
@Diaco I remember my younger brother blowing through a whole roll of 35mm film one time at Old Faithful geyser. I was surprised his camera could click that fast. Ha, ha.
The other strong memory I have of that trip was that when the walkway went near the hot water my father stuck his hand in and went 'ouch'.
Then my mother noticed that in the next group, at the same spot, the oldest male stuck their hand in and flinched back.
Then we were intrigued so we waited and watched. Counting my father, four groups in a row were exactly the same. The father stuck his hand in and jumped. Ah memories.
@RichCC I lived in Livingston, Montana for several; years and went to Yellowstone all the time. Some of those pots of hot water are near 212 degrees, they boil eggs in them all the time. Most of the water is undinkable.
@dalefvictor Ha, ha,.
I doubt they'd have let families within reach of boiling temp water -- even in the 70s.
What we saw was just a mansplainer trap.
@RichCC People, once they get near Yellowstone, turn their stupid meters on too high. They walk off trails, put their kids on bear cubs, get mauled by the mother, camp on trails so the bears that use those trails run through the tents, the will get too close to dangerous situations and then blame the park people for their stupidity. I have seen people try to walk up to Buffalo, fortunately, the animal was not bothered. Want to see what a two-ton buffalo Manwich looks like?
@dalefvictor Yeah. One of my uncles recently retired from being a Park Ranger. He was enforcement -- 'Forest Fuzz', a 'Canyon Pig'.
He has lots of stories -- some funny, a lot not.
He told me about a tourist at the Canyon who was posing for a picture and backed up and fell 200 ft. He said you could see a furrow in the dirt where he tried to catch himself as he went over.
One of his later stories was from near Valley Forge. A lady lost control of a trailer with her couch which slid off a bridge onto the ice in a river. As the couch slipped away she cried 'save it, save it'.
He could only answer 'sorry, I'm not going to risk my people or equipment to save your furniture'.
As they watched it sink he said it was all he could do to keep from going to attention and saluting it. But he said he didn't think she'd appreciate the gesture.