Title : "The cameras of Generation Z’s childhoods, seen as outdated and pointless by those who originally owned them, are in vogue again."
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"The cameras of Generation Z’s childhoods, seen as outdated and pointless by those who originally owned them, are in vogue again."
"Young people are reveling in the novelty of an old look, touting digital cameras on TikTok and sharing the photos they produce on Instagram. On TikTok, the hashtag #digitalcamera has 184 million views.... Gen Z-ers... are now in search of a break from their smartphones.... That respite is coming in part through compact point-and-shoot digital cameras, uncovered by Gen Z-ers who are digging through their parents’ junk drawers and shopping secondhand...." "[N]ostalgia for the Y2K era... has seized Generation Z.... Among some Gen Z-ers, the digital camera has become popular because it appears more authentic online, and not necessarily because it is a break from the internet, said Brielle Saggese, a lifestyle strategist at the trend forecasting company WGSN Insight. Photos taken with digital cameras can impart 'a layer of personality that most iPhone content doesn’t,' she said. 'We want our devices to quietly blend into our surroundings and not be visible'...."I have so many old cameras in my defunct tech drawer. I'd have thrown them out, but now I have to keep them on the theory that someone may want them, though I'm thoroughly disinclined to put in the effort to sell them and ship them to some aspiring Gen Z influencer.
I suspect that this craze is all about the cheap flash look to photos taken of people indoors at night. I have a little nostalgia for photos I took on my iPhone, circa 2007, when my camera battery ran out and I had to settle for what the phone could do — something rough and tending toward the abstract. I wish I could find them.
ADDED: Oh! Wait. I did find them... immediately after hitting publish. From October 15, 2007: "Doing a photo walk with only an iPhone":
"I left the house without putting my battery in my camera, so I had to resort to my iPhone. Via iPhone, things looked like this:
"What is that iPhone look? It seems melancholy."
The first comment, from TML, was: "My friend John says the iPhone is the new Holga. Could be. Could be."
Now, the kids want the camera I was missing, the camera that was better than the iPhone that was better than the Holga, and they have no memory at all of the thing called Holga.
ALSO: Here's a photo of me my son John took with my iPhone that day:
AND: There's one more photo from that day, one that I put up on Flickr but not on the blog. It's that vantage point in DUMBO that all the Instagrammers have turned into a massive cliché:
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