Last weekend I discovered my Pong black and white tv game from 1975 still in its box with instructions. I thought it might be worth something nearly 40 years on, boxed and all. So I checked it out on the internet. . . . . £20
I used to catch the bus up from the Swan and Sugar Loaf pub to Sanderstead pond and then walk down Church Way to the Telephone Exchange where I did some of my Training as a Telephone Engineer.
you're completely right. Analogue audio equipment still has a very valid place, but SLR cameras have absolutely no redeeming features over a DSLR. Digital photography is one of those rare things, a new technology that has absolutely no downside at all.
My nephew didn't think much of his iphone til his other uncle showed him his first mobile phone...like a car battery with a regular handset. Then he dug out an old Alcatel phone and took the sim card out...
35mm camera still got one somewhere. If the youth of today think an "old" 2Mp phone camera takes shite snaps, tell them about 110 cameras and Kodak Instamatics. What would your Grandad think about a back garden BBQ where you eat outside, and go into the house when you need the toilet! Boiling the kettle to get hot water to wash your face then putting too much cold in. Doing homework in the kitchen with a paraffin stove for heating (all the time) and a candle to see by during the power cuts. - I was real popular at school when the power workers were striking - my dad was a union shop steward at one of the large coal -fired power stations in the Trent valley. [FONT="]I remember fixed wheels and bar brakes and my first two pushbikes had solid tyres. Tubes – punctures – progress??? What sort of posh windows do you folks have that don't get ice on the inside when it gets down below -5 outside? [/FONT]
What about when shops used to close?If you needed anything it was tough,unless it was crisps or pop,you might be able to get that at the offy.
It didn't really matter if shops used to close, because half the parental team would have already done the shopping. Not like nowadays when you're both working your fingers to the bone, fitting in shopping in your supposed leisure time, and only having enough energy at the end of the day to open the inevitable bottle of wine and microwave an M&S ready meal. And all so you can have a plasma TV and an iPhone 5. You grow apart, have more in common with someone at work (as it takes up all your time), get divorced and your kids are miserable. So you give them gadgets they don't need and they've seen half the world before they are 10. You don't get owt for nowt, as the saying has it.
There's something magical about developing photos yourself ... Honestly . I lived in the darkroom at college .. Me chemicals and some banging tunes I used to drink in the Swan and sugar loaf sometimes ... When I shouldn't have been And The Ship , the Gun , The Black horse ... Getting into The Underground Club to see Peter & the Test tube babies was hell ! Not to mention sneaking past certain pubs incase my Dad was in them ie the Dog and Bull! Oh my other fav place Beanos second hand record shop .. I so miss that place I loved it!
I use to develop film and print photos in my parents kitchen,after putting all the blackout material up.Time would fly past and suddenly it would be the early hours of the morning.The chemicals were a bit heady as well,think the fixer was the worst.Still remember the thrill of an image appearing,like majic,on the paper.
No they didn't. We had to do the bloody shopping, and with a family of 7 them bags were bloody heavy for a 10-year-old:frown: And we had to walk home. Well, I say had to, we just pocketed the bus fare...
It's quite sad nowdays you know when marriage / relationships over when you can't wait to get to work!!! And instead of talking to each other , your getting emails from significant other who is sat in same room!!!
