Kids react to a film camera.

Woody112704

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Saw this on Yahoo's front page and thought I'd share it with you. Watched it and got a pretty good kick out of it. I remember using disposables when I was younger but never did use any regular cameras before digital.


Also I'm curious if you use a film camera and you have kids or grandkids do they know what to do with a film camera or are they confused like the kids in the video?
 
I have just wasted seven minutes of my life on that. It is one of the most depressing things I have ever seen. Not the reactions of the children, who are after all simply products of their education and upbringing - it is not their fault that they have not been exposed to such things - but the fact that somebody actually makes videos like that. It encapsulates for me all that is worst about the untrammelled proliferation of complete and utter rubbish on the internet. I genuinely want to slap someone now.
 
Mine's already not able to react like this. Poor thing, I've exposed her to all kinds of ancient technology from day one.

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DSCF5243 by gordopuggy, on Flickr


When she shoots, it's my old Nikon Coolpix superzoom from 5 years ago. So she IS used to screens and instant reviews, but she stopped asking me to "see the photo" when I'm using a film camera.
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Mt Auburn Cemetery by gordopuggy, on Flickr
 
These are great photos! Love that first one. Lot better than the kid reaction video.

Mine's already not able to react like this. Poor thing, I've exposed her to all kinds of ancient technology from day one.

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DSCF5243 by gordopuggy, on Flickr


When she shoots, it's my old Nikon Coolpix superzoom from 5 years ago. So she IS used to screens and instant reviews, but she stopped asking me to "see the photo" when I'm using a film camera.
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Mt Auburn Cemetery by gordopuggy, on Flickr
 
Lighten up Bill. My kids eat ephemeral stuff like this all the time. They hardly ever watch TV, it's youtube for ever.

I have just wasted seven minutes of my life on that. It is Lone of the most depressing things I have ever seen. Not the reactions of the children, who are after all simply products of their education and upbringing - it is not their fault that they have not been exposed to such things - but the fact that somebody actually makes videos like that. It encapsulates for me all that is worst about the untrammelled proliferation of complete and utter rubbish on the internet. I genuinely want to slap someone now.
 
Oh I know. I do this for a living. I fully understand about "millennials" and "Gen Z" and digital interaction - I advise on it for a living. It's just that something as claptrappy, kitsch and kludgy as this is as downright depressing as when I see another rerun of a rerun of "Animals Do the Funniest Things" or "I'm a Celebrity"...

[Dusts off Holland and Holland, hand-tooled Curmudgeon]
 
Actually I had the same reaction when I saw this a few days ago. It's cute, but in a cloying, tired sort of way. The underlying point (things have changed so much in ten-ish years!) is valid, I guess, but I don't love their way of telling that story.
 
I had a similar experience when my cousin's son had no idea what a cassette tape was :)
Technology just moves so quickly now, remember DAT and DCC tapes? Minidisc? Came and went in about a decade.
I'm sure there'll be lots of things like that going forward. I can't even being to imagine what things will be like in 50 years.
 
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