Home video. Blast from the past?

[Ko.Fe.]

Someone wrote: "During film P&S era two Christmas parties on same roll of film were nothing unusual".
And instant bingo just flashed through my mind. Yes, because each Christmas party was on three hours home video. 😀

The question which comes later is: Why with iPhone capable of great video all we do is snapshots for FB?

 

[daveleo]

Because..... unless people are doing something interesting, video is a huge bore.

 

[B-9]

As a kid (when film was king) I would shoot a whole box of superia for one party! I did have a P&S some Olympus Zoom. I was the official family photographer... I even had a nice plastic Velbon tripod!

Mom could not afford a video camera of any caliber, but she would drive me to Ritz Camera once a month to drool on a Nikon N80 and kit zoom she offered to buy me (if I skipped a couple years holiday gifts) but being a relatively smart kid I wouldn't let Mom spend that kind of cash. It was well enough to hold and dream of. Gotta have goals!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

In my case working P&S came as everything else. After 1991, the borders were open. Almost by the same time the home video came. We used one which mother-in-law gave money for.
I took it on my long business trip to USA. It was something like 1996. Where is one moment on the tape with our client from Moscow who is tasting some local american dark beer (Oregon State) and making this comment : "looks like they are adding some port in it...". We were arriving to Nevada City by shuttle bus from Sacramento.

Happy Friday! 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

There ARE plenty of idiots, who use their phone (in vertical) to make videos of stuff they perceive as funny/interesting/hot.

 

[JoeV]

Someone wrote: "During film P&S era two Christmas parties on same roll of film were nothing unusual".
And instant bingo just flashed through my mind. Yes, because each Christmas party was on three hours home video. 😀

The question which comes later is: Why with iPhone capable of great video all we do is snapshots for FB?

Because iPhone/iOS doesn't easily permit you to archive those lengthy videos. You can import footage from flash cards via the adapter to the iOS device, but you have to "archive" footage created on an iOS device via iTunes to a computer. And, depending on what version of iTunes you have, the archived copy on your computer is only viewable through iTunes; you can't easily export the footage to another app/program for editing.

~Joe