[GH85Carrera]

We need to renew our passports by the end of the year. We have no immediate travel plans, but we want to keep the passports up to date. So we went to the local Walgreens and got our passport photos taken.

They did a good job of the photo, but with digital of today it is a pretty easy process.

Geezer voice: "well back in my day!" at my first job with a paycheck, we shot passport photos. Back in the olden days it HAD to be a black and white photo for passports. We had a 8x10 studio camera mounted to a rail road like track to move toward or away from the subject. Our studio had a dozen different light sources, and the power of each was adjustable, hanging from the ceiling so they could be moved with ease. The 8x10 camera could take a piece of film that was indeed 8x10, so you can imagine it was a LARGE camera, and it needed a sturdy support column. We had an adapter that would take 5x7 film, and that had a "split back" so it would shoot two 3 & 1/2 x 5 images one at a time, on the one piece of film. Process the film, and use the 5x7 enlarger to print the best of the two images. The boss was a wizard at portraits. He knew just how to light a face, and he made most everyone look better in the photo than they did in most all snapshots. We had to reduce the image size of the negative so it was called an enlarger, but was technically a reducer.

All of that was replaced with cheap digital camera, and an inkjet printer. Perfect color photos in 20 minutes.