I can’t wait to see the new photos that I understand your Aunt Rachel, who is still on holiday in Israel, took with you and your parents in a park near to your home in Givat Sha’al. Rachel is the enthusiastic user of a new digital Cannon Single Lens Reflex camera that I bought for her trip to India last year. I have long been interested in photography and am happy that Rachel is following in my footsteps. She takes lovely photos, and I really want to see how you have changed in your first two-and-a-half weeks of life.
Digital photography has only been with us for less than a decade. We previously used traditional film cameras. A roll of a plastic material would be inserted in the camera. As you clicked a photo, the roll would record an image called a negative and move on. When the film was finished, usually taking 36 images, it would be carefully taken from the camera to avoid exposure to light and sent to a laboratory who processed the films in darkrooms and made prints which could take up to 10 days to be returned, often sent by post.
I still find it incredible that we can now see our photos as soon as they have been taken, make near-instant prints, and send them immediately across the world via e-mail.
I wonder what kind of photo technology will you use.
Grandpa Jonathan
Prague, Czech Republic
