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I go for an 11 mile bike ride and.......

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That's mind boggling. My limit was 2 or 3, and even so, never quite hit the target.

Now my memory banks have opened and I'm thinking about exposure meters....I actually lost one outside shooting just before a class. 🙄

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On 5/27/2023 at 2:09 AM, AdvancedSetup said:

I took landscape shots for a long time but back with 35mm film. So nothing saved from those day.

It was always a problem with 35mm, or any size film.
The prints and negatives (or slides) could take up quite some space if you were serious about photography, and tended to get  lost, or thrown out,  left behind during house moves etc.

No scanners, or even home computers, back in those days.
And digital photography wasn't even a thing (outside of specialist labs).
The first camera phone wasn't with us until 2000.
This is an interesting read: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/history-of-digital-cameras-from-70s-prototypes-to-iphone-and-galaxys-everyday-wonders/

Our 35mm gear is antique now.
Shame realy, with limited film/shots you learned to take more care and though with your compositions before pressing the button.

I 'lost', well left behind to get later which never happened, my 35mm photographs (and some equipment) when I moved from urban living to the Lake District.
Even landscapes that I'd had canvas mounted and framed to go on the walls got left behind.
(Though I am now living among those landscapes you do tend to take them more for granted because they are just there on your doorstep).
Hopefully someone is still enjoying my landscape prints on their walls.

 

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Wonderful post @nukecad 👋 thank you.

Thanks and acknowledgment to those prior patent holders, Willis Adcock and Steven Sassoon with a nod to  (my hometown) Eastman Kodak. True nostalgia to read that CNET history article.

You brought up an excellent point about learning to take care and thought in compositions beforehand. With point & shoot cheapies and even phones, digging deep into every single program to discover bracketing, overriding aperture settings, and then waiting that millisecond before the "click"  (yadda, yadda) is makin' me crazy.

I am very sad to read about the things that got left behind. Sometimes we just can't help it. My perspective on losing creative works (of any kind) is that the universe conspires to bring those to people that need and want it. You'll never know who has it of course, but I have an unshakeable belief the intentionality. Art rises to the top of life's never-ending stream and those who are watching nab the good stuff as it passes by.

Being in your Lake District is in itself a reward.

 

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