Did you ever wonder what happens to those film canisters after you drop them off at the lab? What? You don't know what I'm talking about? OK. Let me start over.
Many years ago, back through the swirling mists of time, cameras saved their pictures on a special kind of memory card. It was called "film", and came in long strips, rolled up into a brightly-colored, metal-and-plastic tin. The clever thing about film is that it was both an SD card and sensor rolled into one. The bad part was that the sensor stayed on all the time, so that if you opened up a canister it would suck up all the light and the photos would be gone forever.
We took these films to special labs where they would unfurl them in darkened rooms and bathe them in magical potions. Then, a couple days later, you would go pick up your photos. Only they weren't photos. They were pieces of paper with pictures printed on them. It was kind of like an iPad, but way thinner and you needed one for each picture. Also, no pinch-to-zoom.
So, now you know what a film canister is. And so you may appreciate these retrofitted canisters which let you store your photographs as God intended: on a USB stick. These repurposed cans come from real labs, so you never know what brand you'll get, and they each hold 4GB (did I mention that when they were first used, these can held a maximum of 36 photos?)
The USB Film Roll can be had now from Photojojo for $20 each.
USB Film Roll [Photojojo. Thanks]
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