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Why's everyone buying crappy cameras from the past ? (alien.top)
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Why all of sudden cameras , especially the mediocre crappy budget cameras from the 2000s & 2010s have become popular again. I'm seeing my Instagram and YouTube feed being flooded with reels and shorts about 'this 20 usd camera takes film like photos'.

So what's next , Nokia era phone cameras being popular again.

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[–] werepat@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of comments about it being a trend and/or the cameras being pretty good.

But most people browse photos on their phones, which are usually smaller than traditional 4x6 prints. Also, a loss of fidelity has been a fun tool to aid in the interpretive aspect of photography.

I went to college for fine art photography (don't be like me) and I had a lot of fun with 110 film cameras. Later, in the late 2000s I worked in a prestigious camera shop in Southern California, and they had a huge selection of toy cameras that made photography fun for me. One exposed 360° of an image across 5 or 6 frames of 35mm. I took that on a sailing trip and got some pretty epic photos out of it.