I compulsively take pictures of the sky, same never to be looked at

bluGill 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Taking pictures is important to getting better. Be glad that each one doesn't cost $.30 in film like it would have in 1980 - not inflation adjusted (prices from memory so perhaps off a bit). That is just the cost of the film you used, if you want to look at the negative you have development costs, and even more costs to get a print. Today you don't have to worry about costs of a photo and so can take a lot of them without worry will it be good, if it is bad just learn from the mistake and throw it away.

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fragmede 16 hours ago | parent [-]

BLS says $0.30 is $1.25 today. Each roll was like 30 pictures too (24, but I like round numbers), so like her $30 a roll?

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=.30&year1=1980...

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		I'm going from memory, but I recall that both 25 and 36 picture rolls were common and there were some 12 picture rolls. (maybe 15?) And of course there were a number of different sizes - 110, 120, 35mm, disc, each with different sizes and costs. (more film sizes at the professional level as well, but your local drug store had all of the above)

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a012 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I take pictures of the sky, not to post it somewhere immediately but it’s like documentary captures for later years looking back

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apples_oranges 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We can’t ever document all of life on earth but we can try

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