Lol! Stepany is completely shameless!

... thats one cool chick !

Which is the better question?

A) Someone...still remembers those?
B) Why don't modern digital's have built in printers, yet?

People do, yes, my brother recently took possession of my old self-developing Polaroid camera to buy reproduction film for it - there's a company which actually restarted production since all the old stock was beginning to gradually fail from age.

Also, I've seen a digital pocket camera with inbuilt printer, but the pictures were quite small and apparently fairly expensive, the owner was showing it off in one con and charged a euro if you wanted to get a print.

That would have been my next question on availability of the film canisters. I mean, it really surprised me to find 110 film at a 7-11, when it seemed like only the 35mm stuff could be found...if you searched hard enough.

Yah, it turns out they made a really large format camera that used that kind of film. It's used in some kind of specialist photography that digital can't really do yet. So there is enough of a market that someone bought the machinery and IP rights to make the film. SInce they have the line setup anyway, they make the regular size instant film packs as an additional sales item.

It hasn't been *that* many years since I still saw new (silent) Super-8 film for 8mm film cameras being sold in stores here, too - however sound film hasn't been manufactured for years and years because of the extra manufacturing process in what comes to attaching the magnetic strip to the film.

Magnetic strip? I've never seen that mixture, before.

But, what I have seen seems completely unbelievable that it ever made sound to begin with. It's only a visible wav style deal on both sides. Beats me beyond reason how it works. But, given how much or how little white area there was to black...produced all the sounds that our ears hear to recognize as reality. It's a trip to see and this was figured out long before computers had chips.

It was quite widely used at its time, I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_film#Sound - I grew up with it due to my late grandfather having been an somewhat of an enthusiast about 8mm film, me and my brother had plenty of Disney films etc. in Super-8 with sound - but sadly most of those ended up being badly damaged due to being watched over and over by two kids for years even if we still have them and the working projector.

This is also why certain movies like Disney's Jungle Book don't "sound right" to me when I watch them these days, because the whirring and clatter of a film projector are missing...

It makes perfect sense. After all, magnetic media is really quality for an audio track.

I am also aware that there was a grand experiment of turning audio cassettes into a video storage medium. It was back in the day when VHS cameras roamed the Earth and some company had this interesting idea to make a child friendly version that compressed the video to fit onto that tiny bit of magnetic film. I don't think it actually succeeded as being anything more then a toy, however. For the quality was quite bad. Just the fact that it was possible was an achievement.

They still make them, Polaroid shut the factory down but fans purchased it to restart it. Polaroid themselves started making new ones too, probably after seeing how popular they still were.

And I saw some Japanese digital cameras that did that, but they never caught on. I guess since they could only print really tiny postage-stamp sized photos, take a lot of room for the ink, and were slow. Pretty sure they would have added a decent amount of weight to the camera too.

I could think that thermal printing versions might work on a budget. Be in Black and White. Plus the paper wouldn't last that long. But, it would be portable and inexpensive. Or a micro print cart with miniature ink tanks. Though, might only last for a few pics.

Polaroid has been around for a very long time. Just looked it up. http://www.polaroid.com/history 1947? Wow...amazing.

O_O;; That... would never happen in Real life. >w>;;;;;

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That's why it would be a perfect gag. Just snap your crotch, make a thousand copies and hand out randomly.

...then run when the cops show up.

lol... true. X3

*squints carefully at jup*
OMG YOU'RE THAT GUY FROM LAST SUMMER

It's a small world after all.

You're right, in real life people would text the pictures.

That's...actually, absurdly cute!

Can I have one too? c:

can i get a picture too XD hahah

Pretty sure if anyone tried this out in real lifen that picture wouldnt be accepted so shamelessly

It appears that she is not shy.

Such an adorable concept behind this one! X3

Aw, that's so sweeet~




And a lil sexy . . . . I need to get a pic for Oliver o//w//o

............*snerk* LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
THAT IS SO FUNNY THAT I MIGHT END UP PASSING OUT