Just the thing for older folks who, as everyone knows, just can’t get the hang of these new fangled computer machine contraptions.
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This will give those godless liberal baby boomers something to do while they’re waiting to die.
Ive always hated the shipping and handling charge. Shipping, ok. But handling ought to be built into the price. Interestingly, you get two cameras for the price of one (i.e.$10) IF you pay for shipping and handling for two. And, even more interestingly they did not say how much that was gonna cost. Wanna bet someone just bought up some ancient Vivitar cache of unsold cameras? Also wanna bet that by the time yougot finished this $10 would bloom to $40?
By the way, I got a 87 year old aunt who uses a digital (I think it’s a Canon) downloads them to her laptop, resizes them and sends me copies by email.
Instead of waiting a few seconds to see their blurry photo(s). With this camera they can wait just 3 or 4 days to see their burry photos. I bet they can’t remember talking the photos or who’s in them anyway…
Heh, comments above hopefully read more details…
“This video has not been posted as a commercial for the product featured. It was posted by Blue Moon Studios, the company that produced the commercial. This is not an advertisement.”
I’m holding out for the return of the Polaroid. There have been rumors of its return as some kind of digital format instant picture….
What phone number do i call? Is it restricted to US only?
nice one
As the ad started, I was thinking “why did they superimpose the sound of a film camera onto the advert?”
Had me going for a mo
I have a wonderful 35 mm camera with a high end lens from the 80s. It took wonderful pictures. I have a picture of a kid playing basketball frozen in air taken under incandescent lighting/no flash but the cost of film and developing and printing were prohibitive. Got some good long exposure pictures too.
On a couple of occasions I thought the thing was feeding film and it wasn’t. In order to be absolutely sure you had to be willing to sacrifice a shot or two.
I can take a couple of thousand pictures now and throw them onto my hard drive for what one role of film cost. The cameras will also do decent video.
I find film cameras more complicated than your average ditigal camrea, or even the camera on my smart phone. The more “simple” they are means you’re more likely to fuck up the image you’re trying to take.
It could be out of focus, bad lighting, motion blur, red eye, wrong exposure time. Then you have to worry about rhe film it self, like remembering to advance the film after you take a shot, or get a double exposure. Dropping the camera and exposing all the film to light. Rewinding the film when finished. Buying the proper type. Plus when you take a picture it’s kept on the film permanently.
Plus you can play the environmental card having to deal with harsh chemicals for developing and stopping, and the chemical processes for creating film and photo sensitive paper.
All kinds of things can go wrong with a “simple” camera that a normal digital camera takes care of for you.
I love this ad. YES! YES! Digital cameras ARE complicated, cumbersome, and expensive! I have been addicted to computers and technology for some twenty years, I learned how to use ALL the features of my digital camera in three days (including CHDK), but thank heavens I haven’t lost my ability to put myself in someone else’s shoes, and I don’t go around making fun of people who don’t share my interest in the latest technology. Those people exist, and I sincerely hope their needs and expectations are met by some company. The sun should rise for everyone.
Besides, the image quality of digital cameras is still crappy in comparison with film. Digital is still nowhere near the resolution and dynamic range of film. Many serious photographers still use film because the result is a lot better.
Digital is to photography what compact discs are to music: yeah, it works, but vinyl sounds a lot better. Sound is compressed in CDs, and digital image is just a rough interpretation/emulation of the real image. Real photographers know, there are certain conditions under which NO DIGITAL CAMERA in the world will take a decent picture, while film cameras will.
Like everything else in the world, “progress” has made photography become cheaper and more accessible, but not before lowering our standards so we eat shit and call it caviar.
The 21st century sucks. Pictures were a lot better when I was a child. Movies were a lot better when I was a child. Music was a lot better when I was a child. Homes and cities were a lot better when I was a child. Companies and customer service were an awful lot better when I was a child. People were politer when I was a child. People were SMARTER when I was a child. Computers got better, but people these days are so dumb they are now trading straightjacket tablets and phones with stupid fart apps for the powerful computers. Every way we look, quality is not even an afterthought anymore. The 21st century is a huge pile of shit.
I slowly switched to digital. Transitioned by taking film photo’s then digitizing them with a scanner to make slide shows. Biggest stimulus for that was lugging all the film equipment on vacations/thru airports/airport scanners turning film green whereas a good digital was much lighter/easier and worth the degraded image quality.
The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades.
I look at tiled walls and just don’t get it! How can anybody make photographs out of millions of differently colored tiles? Let alone any other sort of graphic.
Oh, somebody has invented a way to take microscopic crystals of silver salts and flow harsh chemicals onto them, thus turning them into receptors for complex organic dyes! How simple. How easy. Now I can shoot pictures of my great, great, great grandchildren.
But more importantly; now I “get it.” No muss, no fuss.
There is one thing, though: I don’t ever use the word muss without fuss.
# 7 HenryG said, “I’m holding out for the return of the Polaroid.” Don’t know if you’re interested enough to do some searching but here in Thailand Fuji has a line of cameras and films that do instant “polaroid” prints. I don’t know if they’re available anywhere else.
# 12 Luc said, “…but vinyl sounds a lot better.” I have a friend in Brooklyn who used to design and build custom speakers. He also insists vinyl sounds better. We took ten of his vinyl recordings that we were able to match up with my CD recordings and put him to the test. I admit he identified 7 out of the 10 correctly but that still means 30% of the time he couldn’t tell the difference.
# 13 bobbo said, “I slowly switched to digital.” I switched abruptly. I was being sent to an isolated post in the Angolan highlands. The opportunity to buy and process film would have been very rare so I bought myself a very expensive 2 megapixel Olympus. You couldn’t pay me to go back to film. I have a little Canon point’n’shoot that is never far from my hand. I even have a water tight housing to take it scuba diving! Then a mid-range Fujifilm and a high end Sony. There’s also a video camera and a couple of phone cameras. It’s a digital world…
#14–Buzz==don’t muss your hair.
#15–Animby==Well, yes. Once I bought my first digital camera, I never bought another “analogue” anything. In fact, there is still some Kodak Film in my freezer. Can’t even be bothered to shoot it. xxxxxxxx Just checked. I gave the film away when I donated my cameras to a local high school photography class. Right up to date our local high schools.
To all the “twinkies”
I’m 65….so not really a baby boomer. I have made my living with technology since the 60’s. I’d like all you young punks to know that a good deal of the technology you enjoy was invented by boomers. Get over yourselves!!!! I have always enjoyed the company and knowldge of people old than myself. I respect them.
Many oldsters are challenged by technology….but most of them can spell and write in coherent sentances. So before you show your ignorance….. take the time to talk with older folks, share your knowledge with them and maybe even learn a few things from them. You’ll be richer for the experience.
These cameras dont have speed control, aperture control, film speed…only focus at 8 feet.
These are those FREE/$1 cameras that IF you drop, they CRACK..
ALL plastic, and eat up batteries.
I half expected the ad to have one go online to buy the thing and to also find out where to have film processed.
#17–Swatting at imaginary flies==Old people take up more space than they are worth and should die to get out of the way. The future is for the young–ie==those boomers your either are or are not a part of that made the technology we are using today. Of course, they made that technology when they were young too.
Very Few people are worth talking to and the percentage declines with age. Much better to read a book.
I used to get the strangest looks from the clerk at the store whenever I picked up the photos I’d taken of the 21 year old twins “performing”.
Digital photography has eliminated those somewhat embarrassing interactions.
Gotta love those conservative shopping networks.
OvenMaster – if you aren’t quite in the Leica pay bracket – Olympus EP-1 ( and it’s sister cameras) are rather nice and definitely in the classic Leica / Olympus pen style
I like film.
I like the way that it makes you aware that you have a limited number of frames in a roll, so you think more about the photo.
I like the excitement (and disappointment) of getting your photos back and viewing them or the first time a few days later, instead of right away as a fleeting moment.
I like boxes of old photos that you find and can look through.
I like the way that photos really exists, instead of some digital representation that just goes away with a disk crash.
I like the way that you can’t “chimp” over and over trying to take the perfect picture.
I like the click of a real shutter.
I like being able to buy a decent camera with excellent resolution for $100 instead of $1000, and that it isn’t “outdated” in six months.
I like putting and removing pictures in albums, instead of trying to publish a ‘book’ every time I want to do a collection.
I like $5 disposable cameras at weddings, full of surprises.
I like a shutter that actually fires when I press the shutter rather than 3 seconds later.
I like film.
(and I have $7,000 worth of digital bodies)
aah I loathe the Brownie Camera. I think I will start using it soon, and put the mark D1 on the shelf
I’ve gone back to film.
I worked for years perfecting my photography and then I got a digital camera and my shooting became as sloppy as my handwriting. (which used to be good before computers!)
I even bought a Holga which shoot 120 film.
I’m loving it.
OK, we’ve got this frickin’ warehouse full of cheap 35mm film cameras. How can we unload them?
Similarly, I have left my Kindle sitting on my dresser for the past four months. I prefer real books. They are simply better in every way.
I prefer film, but don’t prefer the cost of film. That said, I use Canon SLRs now, and have invested heavily in L Series lenses for the digital bodies, which keep improving.
In the old days, a better film worked with your body and lenses, now I have to figure on a new $2500.00 body every four years or so, to keep up with the competition. (pro photographer).
I really really miss the darkroom.
Lightroom does not BEGIN to feel like the pleasures available under red light.
#16 They most likely wanted it as an example of how thing were in days of yore in much the same spirit as they might take a gramophone or an old tube radio.
I remember seeing a CD player at a high end stereo store that had TUBES! Do they still make Macintosh hi fi tube gear?
I imagine they still make guitar amps with 6L6 Russian tubes, right?
And 35mm film is stil sold at every Walgreens store, so SOMEBODY likes it. Who cares if an older person finds it simpler? It IS simpler.
Digital cameras are not complicated at all. Nor is the process of transferring files from your camera to a PC, or taking your SD card to Walmart to print pictures. But I do have 60ish relatives who have no effing clue about how to do this, no matter how many times it has been explained. Many older people (not all, but many) have SIMPLY CANNOT GRASP THE SIMPLICITY OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Best to give up on them and move on.
Tell me that isn’t JCD at 00:32!
minolta 9000 camera.. with lens.
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