plastic

this post is for future generations...

once upon a time, photographs are taken with film (plastic coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts). after 'exposing' the film, you need to bring them to the photo labs to develop into photographs that you can hold in your hands. many a time, you won't know how your pictures will turn out 'cos you can't preview them on your camera. there's always a feeling of great anticipation before you collect the pictures at the lab.

yesterday, i found out that this piece of plastic is already part of history. i half-suspected that the usual lab that i frequent may not be able to re-print my passport-sized photographs and i was right. but i wasn't prepared when the studio where i had taken this photo told me they don't have the machine to re-print from the negative! :(

thanks to the organisation who had requested for a "hardcopy" passport-sized photograph (and numerous other docs, i thought we're already in the paperless era?), i'm rudely brought up to date on photographic technology.

so if any of you are still hoarding those negatives containing your precious memories, i suggest you convert them digitally before even such conversion technologies become obsolete! :P