If you do, you'll remember them.
If you don't, I can tell you that it is film canister. You know... film for cameras. It used to come in these little plastic canisters. And I used to keep a ton of them (because I used to take a lot of pictures). That's right... before digital cameras, you actually had to put film in your camera. And, when you took a picture, you had to use up the whole roll of film, and then take it in to get developed, then wait to pick it up, and then (and only then) could you see the picture that you took. Remember that? If you were broke (like I was), you usually had to wait a week for your pictures to get developed. No 24 hour "while you wait" photo developing for me... I couldn't afford it. And if you bought the 48 picture exposure film instead of the 12 (like I used to because it was cheaper again), well, then you had to wait sometimes a whole month before you finished the roll and got the pictures back! You simply didn't take 48 pictures a day/week like you do now. You didn't want to waste the film!!
My how things have changed!
With digital photography, you not only see the picture the minute you take it... but you also take a whole lot more pictures. You can. It's doesn't cost anything to take 22 pictures of the same rainbow. So you do. At least I do. But, sometimes... just sometimes... I miss the anticipation of going to pick up my pictures from the local drug store. The exclamations of "oh, I remember that!" or "Wow, that picture really turned out good!". But, I certainly don't miss the cost!
Oh... and those little canisters? GREAT for taking vitamins or aspirin in your purse. Or keeping jewellery in when you were traveling. I still have a few left over from the olden days, and I think I might just hang on to them.
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