ORBITTING SINCE THEN CHANGED SO MUCH
Many developments changed after Sputnik, including photography. What a development that’s been. We’ve been fixed for good...especially for us who still long for darkroom photography. Thus the following;
I MISS KODAK ACID FIXER
I miss the Ansco and Ilford films plus the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and Starflash cameras as well as the Leica or Nikon original rangefinder. We loved Sylvania and Westinghouse flash bulbs and all those old rules about shutter speeds, apertures, exposure meters, tripods. We had darkroom safelights, tanks, trays used to chemically develop films. All those so basic human elements. Now, so much has been replaced by computerization and a ‘pixelated’ realization. Possibly a for those who remember a negative observation, what we picture today, in a flash, is a rapidly changing and expanding civilization.
RECENT HISTORY
All those slogans like walking a mile for a Camel. Do you remember the days of the kid wearing the Phillip Morris cap.? How about the Marlborough Man; those slogans sure had an angle and sold many a pack. Cigarettes with filters that were oh ‘so mild and satisfying’--with a cool menthol taste, mighty hard to resist. All those famous people advertising. Even some medical professionals were on the list.