Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 31, 2013
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Transcript:
Charlene: Go faster! Go faster! Simon: Look, Honey! Before we print we can look at each shot 7,000 different ways and then... Charlene: Go slower! I'm 15 years behind on albums!! 1980s: One-hour photo finishing. 1990s: 30-minute photo finishing. And now, the digital miracle. 2000s: Four-month photo finishing.
Good timing for this story arc. I am in the middle of scanning Dad’s collection of slides (over a thousand of them) since bulbs for slide projectors are getting a little hard to find. At least his are organized and labelled – well, most of them are. I am limiting my editing to rotating and flipping as required – avoiding the trap of spending time enhancing and cropping. Fun project though – looking at family pictures taken over 5 decades ago – was I ever that young?