Ancient Technology.

In these days of iPhones, digital cameras, the internet, flatscreen TVs and mpeg players, sometimes it's nice to take a fond look back to the 70's and see what kind of techology we had to make do with at that time. The first picture is an "instamatic" pocket camera that took 110-type film. The photo quality they were capable of was god-awful even in it's time, but it hadn't stopped it from being very popular as it was a cheap no-frills thing that anyone could use. Oh, it was my parent's camera - at a time when I was far too young to even think about getting into photography. This photo was taken today using my D40, and when I looked inside the Instamatic, amazingly it has an unused roll of film still nestling in it! (and it is a Safeway's own brand). The second picture was a NHS hearing aid that was the standrad in the late 60s and early 70's before a metallic version took over. I put an AA battery inside it to see if it worked . . . sadly, it didn't.