Relatable

One of my sisters, who is the unofficial archiver of the family, kept the photo albums when my parents passed. However I kept another treasure: the Rolleiflex camera that recorded our childhoods.

With your powers combined you can take and store a photo. I hope you have a third sibling who inherited the dark room.
- The 4th sibling does have a dark room, but they misunderstood the assignment...
- We do have a 3rd sibling, but alas, she has no dark room. Also, not sure you can find 120 film these day.
Are you from the 19th century or something?
- Who among us isn’t?
I know that camera very well i high poly 3d modelled it as part a midterm project and its by far my most favourite thing i ever modelled.
I am not sure if i still have an easily accessible pic of it though since i long deleted my fb.

I got married in the aughts, just a few years after Outkast came out with the song Hey Ya, which was a super popular song. Anyway, my wife and I had a Polaroid camera and thought it would be fun to leave it out with a bunch of film so our wedding guests could take pictures of the night for us.

So we went to Target to buy film and ask a teenager working there if they sold Polaroid film. They had no idea what we were talking about. I said remember asking my wife, "So what do you suppose they think that line 'shake it like a Polaroid picture' means?"

That teenager would be in their mid-30s by now...

The aughts?? Surely that must have been a particularly ignorant teen, or they were messing with you. High quality phone cameras were far from ubiquitous then. My phone had a camera but I was still buying disposable ones at CVS before going on trips so I could get high quality photos all the way through the aughts. And if that teen is in their mid 30s now, I'm still younger than them...
- I'm 29 and we had a Polaroid at our wedding three years ago. That teenager must've been living under a rock.
- Maybe it was the Polaroid part they didn't understand? Probably used to disposables.
- You're kind of forgetting about digital cameras. Looking back, I was on my 3rd or 4th digital camera at the time - and Polaroid had been bankrupt for years.
Polaroid is actually a genericization for instant print camera film though o doubt he would have known it by the proper term either.

I got my first photo album in the early 90s when my parents gave me a Polaroid camera! Somehow I have now inherited my grandparents photo albums with pictures going back to the 1940s to the 80s when I was a kid and I love looking through them even though I don't know who all of the people are. It's a MUCH different experience than swiping through images on a phone and it makes me sad that younger people might never experience that

na that kid just dumb, parents or caretakers didn’t know how to decorate clearly lol

More likely that monica is dumb. The photo labs are usually next to the electronics sections.
Yeah this is how I feel.
I get that the world is moving forward and I might be okd and whatever but I think that a physical photo album is still part of assumed general knowledge in 2025.
nobody should use pictures to decorate, that's what sculptures are for
- Ya, need a good pair of gargoyles obviously
- no
  just bare walls and imagination

Relatable except for still shopping at Target 😝

*while shoplifting at Target
- don't risk gettin lost in the penal system while you piss away thousands on parole and years on cycles of parole violations just so you can steal some worthless garbage meant to fuel consumerism, even if you're sticking it to a disingenuous lying shit hole company

Tell him its like a trading card binder but for 4x6" cards or family members

You print out your pictures?

Or you still use film? Do you develop it yourself? Cuz I don't even know where you'd do that these days outside of the rare specialty place. The nearest one to me is a 3 hour drive. 😮‍💨

We do. They were printed from a print service that ships them to you. We do physical albums because I find it easier to hand to visitors than handing them my phone or trying to curate albums I can share digitally. Also don't have to manage who has access to my digital albums.
- My dumb old ass never even considered a service via the web for that... 🤔
  I'd have ended up buying development chemicals and a red light for my bathroom if I got back into using my film camera (I know how to develop film; but only black and white) 🤣
Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.
Jokes beside i know a few stores with a terminal to print pictures on photo paper cheaply.
Almost no one does film (outside professional/ artists) and i doubt develop many people know how to manually develop their own anymore, even during the golden days of film my dad just brought them to the store who developed the film professionally for you. Thats one store still exists.
I remember being given a camera on summer camp. It had 20 pictures i could take and it cost just as much for a failed or good picture.
- stores with a terminal
  sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root
- Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.
  You mean those things you send by email? Don't be so old fashioned.
it seems you don't know it either what is a photo album.
printing pictures does not solve the problem. the problem comes after printing them: you need to store them somewhere. and that's what the album is for.
- No shit, Sherlock. Why do you think I asked if they print their photos?

Thathappened

nothingeverhappens
- plentyofthingshappenjustnotthis

just tell me where the dang hammers are

I just want a picture of a got dang hammer!

Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).

We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They're still in business! Though they just offer "Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)" sort of services.

(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)

Photo albums are kinda meh. You need to First make photos, catalog them in albums, theb take them out and look at them, which we usually don't do. Digital photo frames are cool. They are just there endlessly rotating memories in your living room. Digital photo frames were all the rage some 10+ years ago and people forgot about them now, but they are still a thing and they serve the purpose so well. Regular photo frame holds 1 photo. Digital has enire album. The one I have has actuallynice faux wooden frame so it lookslikeactual photo frame and not like a tablet.

Physical photos have a different feel. You wouldn't look at a piece of art in a museum and think it'd be better digital. It's personal. It's a feeling to open up a book and see the past. You take the time and experience it when you have to flip the pages. Idk, maybe in my 30s, I'm just an old fart
- No, but if there was a digital piece of art, I wouldn't think it would be better painted either. Art is supposed to stay in the medium they were created.
With albums you get to have a moment to organise memories, and share them with loved ones.
with digital albums? i take pictures and forget they exist.
- Realistically you do it once every decade, maybe. With digital frame in a living room, I see photos of my sister, nephews, photos of all the guinea pigs and hamsters I had, of my dog... They just randomly rotate every day and randomly wake up fond memories. It really works.
Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents' grandparents?
Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.
Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.
- I'm going to upset everyone and say I dislike both!
I have an old Mac mini that I installed Ubuntu on to work as a digital frame. It works great and runs its own file server so it is easy to add pictures to.

somehow while reading this i thought she meant picture frames and wanted to tell her they're by the wall art