And We Used to Have to Use Flashbulbs!

While watching Hawaii Five-O, one of our favorite new "unreality" shows, a commercial for Progressive Insurance came up. Flo had her old-fashioned camera with its flash. Don reminded me, "That's back when we used to use flash bulbs." Carrying flash bulbs was a pain in the neck. No wonder there aren't many indoor pictures from that era.

But then, Don reminded me, Kodak invented the cube . . . that had FOUR flashbulbs in the same little cube. After one flash picture, it would rotate to give the picture taker a new bulb. It was miraculous!

With the new digital photography we all use now, sometimes it is fun to reminisce about how it used to be . . . with film for which we sometimes had to wait two weeks for it to be returned from the developer; with big flashes that we had to carry with us.

The advantage? Pictures that we could put in albums and keep for years. Will people 100 years from now be able to print all of the pictures we have stored on CD's or on hard drives?