So part of the fun in these "Kids React" videos is kids trying to figure out technology that I grew up with, owned, used, knew like the back of my hand, usually with great hilarity.
But part of it is being reminded of how things were and, in some cases (certainly this one) how much better things are. Because while there are some disadvantages to our world of mobile phone cameras and chips — there are some huge advantages, too. It's not jetpacks and flying cars, but I'll take it.
(h/t +Les Jenkins)
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I'm surprised that they didn't address the biggest drawback of the old system – the limited number of pictures in a roll of film. Today, we think nothing of taking a couple of hundred pictures at a single event (and perhaps throwing 150 of them away). Back then, when some of my rolls of film only had 12 pictures in a roll, I had to do much more planning.
+John E. Bredehoft Yes — scarce quantity and no way to know the quality until well after. (Heck, having nigh-unlimited storage means you can take pictures of stuff then pictures of metadata — street signs, building signs, art placards, etc. — about the picture you just took so that you can talk about it intelligently later.
And let's not forget about date-time and geolocation stamping on the pictures themselves.
The flip side to all of that is ending up with thousands of photos that need curation.
We had no idea they were "devil cameras."