It being Christmas Eve, Harrison had been intent on showing someone else his elf, named Red. But then he caught sight of me taking his picture with my half-frame camera. I thereafter spent ten minutes with him explaining how it worked and how it differed from digital cameras. I think he will be an engineer like his father.

The film (Fuji 400) expired 2004, a decade before he was born. The camera was an Olympus Pen D3 from about 1965, when my friend, his grandfather, was still a boy.