Snape's iPod -To Flint or not to Flint, that is the question.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 142503

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> ...
> We have Wizarding Wireless, but we've never seen evidence of 
> any of those at Hogwarts. No mention of them in the dormitories, 
> for sure.  Muggle technology doesn't work at Hogwarts either 
> (camera FLINTs aside and all of that), so no LP listening for 
> the Muggleborns at Hogwarts.  No evidence of music education, 
> that's for sure.
>
> ...edited...  
> You can't write the history of any music without thinking about 
> those issues (and it's amazing how much of them my students keep 
> taking for granted...).
> 
> -Nora claps her hands and brings her professional cred to bear for 
> once when it's actually useful (proud member of the AMS)
>

bboyminn:

Well, I'm seriously straying off topic here; both thread and group.
And further offer apologies for what I know will be a very snarky
attitude.

I just find it odd that you can critisize (with good humor) your
students for their lack of awareness and 'taken for granted' attitude
toward the modern world, and at the same time, you yourself, consider
Collin's camera to be a FLINT. 

Why would a camera be a FLINT? 

Do you know what it takes to make a camera? An oatmeal box, a strip of
film, a pin, a couple of flat pieces of cardboard, and maybe a few
rubber bands; really that's all. You can take prefectly good pictures
with a 'pinhole camera'. (Notice that I did NOT mention a lense at all.)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/camera_todo.html

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/pinholeCamera/

http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam.htm

The next step up from a pinhole camera, is the common everyday
factory-made box camera. I had several of these when I was young and
they are very straight forward. The focus is fixed and the shutter is
purely mechanical. They take perfectly acceptable photographs. 

Don't feel bad though, you are not the only one. The JKR fan world is
filled with people who have never seen a box camera, and can't imagine
a camera possibly working without fancy electronics. But, what do you
suppose people did before 'fancy electronics'? Simple, they use plain
ordinary box cameras. In fact, they had cameras and nice photographs
before they actually had film. Old cameras used chemically coated
glass plates in place of film. 

So, in conclusion, only in the hopelessly jaded digital age could
anyone consider Collin's camera a FLINT.

Hope I haven't been too snarky, and sorry for not addressing your
central point, but the whole camera thing punches my buttons.

Peace out.

Steve/bboyminn