• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      Wow, I feel like we go back further in time with every comment

      My dad had magnesium flash bulbs, but by the time I had a camera they were all electric flashes. It was still film that needed to be developed, but at least there weren’t bulbs you had to replace

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        8 months ago

        There was a lot of overlap between the two. Expensive cameras had electric flashes, but cheap cameras would have a spot to hook up a disposable flash instead. I had a cheap camera. I could basically only take pictures outdoors in the daytime.

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          8 months ago

          I might have been too-young when they transitioned; i had a children’s camera that didn’t have a flash at all, and by the time I was in middle-school everything had switched to electric flashes and disposable cameras (which we enjoyed abusing by charging the flash and then smacking the camera to short the flimsy flash circuit without exposing the film).

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          Yea even in the early to mid 90s I remember those disposable camera with the flash packs you could buy separately. I used to take a bunch of pictures but almost never got them developed since i enjoyed taking the photos more than seeing the results.