Camera Toy: How Anachronistic!

The other day, we bought a toy camera for my daughter. What she did with it and the things she said took me down memory lane.

Within a short time, she was talking selfies with it! I was contrasting that with how much effort and planning it took my dad to get into the family pic he was taking: he’d put the camera on a tripod; add a timer device to the camera; and then rush to be in the pic before the timer expired.

It took her a while to understand that there is such a thing as a standalone camera. Isn’t a camera always a part of a phone, she wondered? We had to show her my old, analog camera to convince her that such things actually exist! It made me realize that separating a camera from a phone must have seemed like the splitting of the atom to her! As this pic below shows, the smartphone is the atom for today’s generation.

While showing her that analog camera, I was telling her this is how cameras used to be in the old days. How old, she asked? Was this used when the dinos roamed the planet? Ouch! But let’s be honest: it sure seems that way, doesn’t it?

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  1. Ramiah KumarOctober 3, 2015 at 4:53 PM

    I liked this one! The dinos days joke is impressive, too. Your finish line naturally enough.

    I am inclined to believe the dino stuff here is a literature-kind (I mean that which is permitted and encouraged in literature for the effect it can produce) in the imaginative expression of yours, not an intrinsic statement coming from the little one. Unless of course, the little she is the kind Hobbs friend Calvin is made of - Calvin can reel off effortlessly the two distinct and separated apart by a huge margin eras of dinosaurs! [But 13 + 6 = ? would floor him in the school! :-) ] For example, in one comic strip, he would point out the error of someone who will not know that one particular dinosaur did not exist during another dinosaur era! :-)

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