Goodbye, film!

Nikon announced today that they will be discontinuing almost all their film cameras and focus exclusively on digital cameras. Great, just another thing to add to the list of things my future kids will ask me about to make me feel old.

"Daddy, why doesn't this camera have an LCD screen?"


Some "modern" anachronisms I've already experienced:

"What's that metal thing sticking out of the TV?"
"That's an antenna, Dylan."

A 7-year old girl plays with a Fisher-Price rotary telephone.
“Daddy, how does this work?”

"Will you quit it? You sound like a broken record!"
"A what?"




"Daddy, what are these?"
"These are what we call fossils, son."

(Ok ok, this last one I made up, but it could happen.)

Pay phones were a big part of my life growing up. Whenever we went out and my father (a pediatrician) was paged, he'd always have to leave us to find a pay phone, or turn off of the freeway to find a gas station with a working pay phone. Easier said than done sometimes, and to be honest, some of those phones looked pretty nasty. My parents kept the ash tray full of dimes, and while I don't have any specific memories, I do remember sitting in the car alot at the gas station watching my dad through the windshield as he talked on the pay phone. All I can say now is, thank God, I became a doctor in the era of cell phones!