fandomhigh | Photography Through the Ages; Thursday, Third Period [01/25].

The class was back in the classroom again, which meant less dealing with harmful chemicals that directly seemed to relate to the instructor's name! And when everyone arrived and settled, surely they'd notice the desk in the front was covered in a collection of various boxy cameras.

"Hey, guys," Prompto said, grinning his greeting as he leaned on the desk. "Just like William Henry Fox Talbot built off of Louis Daguerre's process of developing images to stay, I thought maybe we'd end up building off of processing daguerreotypes into the collodion process of developing pictures, but that would lead us directly into processing film, which made me think that, hey, if we're going to be doing that, then we should have something to process first! So we're skipping ahead a little bit, and we're going to talk about the Kodak camera, which, in this world, is what revolutionized photography and started to make it recognizable as what it is today. Back home, the brand for that was LOKTON, which is the brand my trusty camera," he gave the camera at his hip a loving little pat, "is and has been since I started photography.

"So today, what we're going to do is, I'm going to actually go over how to use one of these bad boys, and sort of go over all the different parts and how they work and why they work, and teach you how to load the film and all that good stuff, and then I'm loaning these to you guys until next class, and then we're going to talk a little bit about how the process of...well, processing film works with the film you used in your OG Kodaks and Brownies! Pretty simple, right? So, to get us started, let's actually talk about our eyes and how they work, and you'll see that a camera is meant to work a lot like that...."

And, with that, Prompto moved around the desk to the backboard so that he could start writing and drawing things out to help him through the lecture.

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Boxy and old?

There's nothing quite like a very enthusiastic photography going over how older cameras worked and developed, complete with visual aids, followed by some demonstrations of all the different elements of the old Kodaks, how to use them, and, most importantly, how to load the film and take the shots, and some of the things to remember when taking pictures with cameras like these.

It turns out, the nice thing about running a photography shop on an interdimensional nexus was that Prompto actually did have access to this stuff; it's amazing what the Photo Hut had stuffed in its storage closets! But, either way, the rest of the class is to get familiar with your box cameras, inspect the different parts to see what Prompto was talking about in his lecture, practice loading the film and maybe start taking a few shots, too!

He might be getting a little moony over how cool it is that you're starting to see the modern camera even in the boxy original Kodaks, especially since he knows the next steps in development, and, oh, man, cameras were so cool, you guys!!!

Stark

Having something to fiddle with was always a plus for Stark. He was having a fine time inspecting the camera and trying to figure out how it all worked.

Arden Finch

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