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gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t think it was too uncommon. B/W images where often “crisper” and also seemed more artsy. I also remember quite a few B/W TV sets around in the late 80s.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, IDK. My family photos from the 80s are in colour (admittedly rather poor colour, but still), and a little looking up seems to suggest it fell out of fashion by that time. Maybe it was an aesthetic choice, yeah.

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apartheid?

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The medium is the message

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah because frankly I was kind of feeling like this might’ve been one of those “make it black and white to make it look older than it actually is” type scenarios…

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    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      B/W film was still cheaper through the 80s and so color photography was very much optional.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wasn’t thinking that, the tv and the the outfits of the people in the chair sort of date it anyway. I was quoting McLuhan

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• wiccan2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Black & White film was usually cheaper to buy and to process, it’s also easier to process yourself at home so was still quite common even into the late 90s.

  In my family color photos were a rarity until my dad got a digital camera because it was easier for him to process the b&w film in a home darkroom.

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• Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About half of my family photos were taken in black and white film throughout the 90's. I think the film was marketed as having a "classic touch" or something to keep people buying it.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see, I see; Maybe that’s it!

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  because it was illegal to be mixed race

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aha!

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• twinkwithahammer@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Newspaper maybe?

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• Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We have a family album with a bunch of photos from my brother’s toddlerhood in ~'83, mostly black and white. Those cameras were still around for a while (not in South Africa, though). Maybe family heirloom, maybe it was just cheaper, or some hobby stuff.

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• Chev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do you still use your 15 year old Toaster? Because it still works…

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