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It's a holiday weekend, and everyone will be out rolling Easter eggs or doing residual Passover duties, so I've been thinking, again, about life records.
I'm not aces at documenting anything, as I've mentioned before, and the records of the goings-on in my life are spotty. I've improved, post-Felix, but that kind of organization doesn't come as naturally to me as, say, falling down does.
It is impossible for me to remember to run for the video camera at opportune moments. But a friend clued me in to a feature on the digital camera that has been nothing short of a revelation: Motion Picture mode. Maybe I'm just slow and everyone else has been taking little video snapshots forever, but this is a mode that really suits me. No longer do I get all peevish thinking about having to watch and log and edit my kid movies, I just snag the camera when something novel is happening, record a couple of minutes and there it is.
By not having to race for the video camera, I have managed to grab:
Felix's second time rolling over (it followed the first by about 30 seconds)
Early smiles
Nap fragment
Carousel riding
Kid and dog carousing
Unusual poolside dining techniques
Musical exertions
Each of these movies is a couple of minutes long, and can easily be screened for eager but distracted relatives without having to go through the whole process of scanning through a videotape and flinching through the embarrassing moments where one's own voice and person are too apparent. The camera is always lying around, just out of kid's reach, so it is infinitely handy.
This is really for recording little windows, handfuls of minutes here and there (as long as you have a large card in the camera) but really, I find I prefer the short form for home movies. If I want something long, I'll watch something by Bela Tarr on my own time.
posted by Elise at 9:31 AM
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