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Dandy Don
A great quarterback, And he was able to make Howard Cosell palatable.

 

Always liked Dandy Don, but couldn't sing worth a damn.

 

A little off topic, but Kodachrome film bites the dust today.
I'm as guilty as anyone for going digital. But it's kinda sad to see an old friend be discontinued.

Kodachrome: The Legendary Film's Last Days - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News

 

Sorry, I don't feel the loss for film. Digital all the way baby! My wife used to spend oodles of money on developing film.

 

Heck, I still miss my old Polaroids.........don't ask.

 

If you spent money on film developing, then you had photos to show for your troubles.
If you do not develop them these days then you are risking losing them forever. Even if they are saved away from the hard drive they are not as permanent as a 4x6 photo.
Our kids may end up having no memories on photos.

 

I know what you mean itsky. Back in the day, I spent oodles of money on film & developing too. I'll never forget the trill of seeing my prints after they were developed. Digital cameras and Photoshop have certainly replaced the skill of setting the proper composition, F-stop and shutter speed for that one shot opportunity.

 

Before we start crying let's not forget the downside, You had a perfectly exposed film of an important event but the shop where you had the prints made did not get the settings correct and you had to get them to do them again and then they lost the negatives.
If you did your own developing and printing you still had the chance to correct the print and the negative for that matter. It was just different then and the masters of the art rose to the top as they still do.

 

Digital has brought the end to kodachrome.

Not sure if pictures here are film or digital, But a fitting song for tribute.
YouTube - Kodachrome

 

Somewhere in a Baham landfill are 36 rolls of Kodachrome from our vacation there in the seventies. Great composed shots of Cathy on white beaches in a swimsuit, great sunsets or enjoying the night life.
Left in a drawer in the hotel.
They never made it home and I miss them. Small as it is, I would not have lost an SD disk.

Cathy sure looked good that week.
I imagine some rustafarion likely has them hanging in his bathroom.

This sample of what I lost from the roll still in my camera when we got home.

 

The thrill was great, but you never knew if you set the focus and light settings correctly. With digital, you can see it instantly and if you don't like it, simply delete. Take your digital medium and upload it Facebook, Photobucket, etc., within minutes.

I paid over $400 for my first Kodak digital camera over ten years ago. It was one megapixel and I thought it was the "s$#t". Now I have my Sony T90 (thanks John-BoilerUpXFire for introducing me to this wonderful device) and it takes very high res 12 megapixel photos in wide screen and HD video.

My wife has a digital SLR Nikon camera where you can still manually set the focus and light settings and she even has two lenses with different zoom factors. I'm glad I got that for free (I stayed in enough Marriotts one year to pay for a small house in Honduras) and she loves the thing.

 

My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 950 that had 2.1 MP. I remeber paying $1,000 for it, and thought I was the man. LOL



Today, I have a Canon 30D that I paid much less for.




But, I can also remember when RAM averaged $1 per MB. I just purchased 4GB of RAM for $36.

 

Heck, I just paid $40 for a 32GB USB thumb drive (which I filled with music for the coupe). I do remember those $1/meg days (16-17 yrs/ago).

 

Actually, it was only 2001 when RAM broke below the $1 per MB mark. Wow, it seems like it should have been longer than that ago. 16 - 17 years ago, RAM was selling for $30 - $40 per MB.

So, the 4GB that I paid $36 for comes out to $0.00879 per MB and just a mere 9 years ago 4GB if you could buy it would have cost $4,096.00. It is totally amazing how much the cost of technology has gone down just in the last decade.

Here is a link to historical memory prices that I found. Memory Prices 1957 to 2010

I think Moore's Law is on steroids. LOL

 

You are right. I was thinking of hard drive costs...

 

Back OT.

Another loss today, Gerry Rafferty. I, as many, always enjoyed his music. He will be missed.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sedPivIxfM[/media]

 

Missed indeed!
The man wrote some very fine songs.

 

I cannot say that I have heard of him before, but the youtube clip that you posted sounded very nice. Almost an Eric Clapton sound.

 

Ahhh, you youngster.

Maybe you'll recognize this song from his Steelers Wheel days?


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g[/media]