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Our Disposable World

Wed Mar 12, 2008, 10:15 PM


My son needed some used dispposable cameras for a school project and we asked a local lab to keep some.  I collected a bag full of them earlier this week and it saddens me to see all this technology to be wasted.



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(it is my watermark twice on the image - I resized it and stuck on another more visible one)

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:iconann-mclaren:
Mood: Sadness ~Ann-McLaren Mar 13, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
Because of these it's almost impossible to find a reasonably priced film camera..
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:iconsubstar:
yes - good point :nod: very true.
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:iconalembic-lynx:
Mood: Sadness *Alembic-Lynx Mar 13, 2008  Professional Photographer
I still have my 1966 Nikon for a film camera all metal, and titanium and old school but a tank that will just keep working ...everything else..in my Nikon digital equip is plastic ..I am also an Olympus/ Leica 4:3 format dslr user and that is a solid magnesium camera built as well as a D200..and even though it is 5.5 mp I like it as its so quiet..and makes TIFF which pretty much all new dslrs have stopped supporting....Its too bad their are not recycling plants world wide for all disposable goods...except of course ..condoms and such ..those should be fed to the knuckleheads that poisoned the planet
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:iconsubstar:
Hear Hear !!!
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:iconalembic-lynx:
*Alembic-Lynx Mar 13, 2008  Professional Photographer
filled to the brim of course :rofl::lmao:
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:iconlemnosexplorer:
~LemnosExplorer Mar 13, 2008  Professional Artist
yeah, I have a box with some 600 of these, when I was developing films.

I kept them safe as I read in usa they can be recycled, as well as their battery for the flash models, in their body, which goes to different recycling etc.

but in greece no such factory exists and now they stay in my storage; I hope to find one plant for recycling them in eu
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:iconsubstar:
Good for you - now if EVERYBODY thought like that, this planet would be a far better place :hug:
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:iconxxcrystalcat:
Admittedly - I would rather it old cameras than animals; we seem to be encroaching a lot everywhere and making up nature laws as we go - ie; an aggressive animal is put to sleep (yet somewhere we forgot that it's a natural attribute for an animal to strike out in fear).

Forgive me butting me =D But I would rather people dispose of as much technology as possible.
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:iconsubstar:
:? we're talking DISPOSING - ie throwing out after one usage. No recycling, just adding to the dump pile. I don't find anything to rejoice about in that.
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:iconxxcrystalcat:
Aah - sorry for the misunderstanding -
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