Capturing holiday memories! There’s not much that a good camera can’t record these days! From the kids opening their gifts, to the celestial events in the winter sky, modern DSLRs can handle it all.
I was looking through some old boxes I retrieved from my parents, and looking at the old slides of Christmases past was a trip! They had great Christmas Eve dinners, and there was always more than one camera to record the festivities! Lots of photos. Lots of slides – so old skool!! I know that modern cameras do a much better job. Let’s take a look…
In some of these old slides of Christmas past, (fixed)you can see very definite grain in the shadows, and the colour is not great. (My old Minolta was/is a great film camera but I shoulda bought tungsten film for those chirstmas dinner shots! My dad had – still has- a Mamya manual camera!). Sure, you can see the people (in my parents living room with the oddball Christmas tree!!), the Christmas tree and all of us with our prezzies, ( I think this was the year I got a Freeman Patterson photography book for Christmas – it looks like it on the table – I think I still have it too!!!), but notice the colour shift from the candles and lights. But with digital you can set your WB per image, rather than per roll as you do with film. So in 30 years from now your images will look just as good as they do today.
These old scans sure bring back memories! I had forgotten so much 🙂 Even with the crappy quality of old film there are good memories locked up in these silver halide particles! I guess that is what traditions are for – to ensure that you repeat the best parts over and over again. Or something like that.
Watching the Grinch, and Scrooge; snowshoeing, getting together with family and friends, reminiscing…eggnog, it’s all good. Ok, just take the pictures, it’ll all turn out fine.
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