The first time I ever saw a digital camera, I was a sophomore in college. I was used to snapping away with an old (but awesome) Canon AE-1, when I saw that the student activities office had a brand spanking new digital camera that you could sign out for a day at a time. This was a big ol’ chunky piece of plastic, probably weighed 2 lbs, and about two full seconds after you pressed the shutter button, it would take a photo that looked *okay* on screen (at least, it looked okay in 1997) but you would never be able to make a print from the image. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and proceeded to snap photos of everything in sight. I was going to post one here but all the photos I took are on a floppy disc somewhere, and even if the disc still exists, my computer couldn’t read it.
Anyway, the reason I was remembering all of that today was because I saw the following comic strip, and it really rang true. 
(More photographic hilarity can be found at www.whattheduck.net.)
by Ryan
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