I couldn't understand having a nostalgia for a time when cameras sucked. At least go film. Hell, go for disposable film cameras or something. Cheap 35mm point and shoots rule.
Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now.
>Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now.
For me it occurred about 5 years ago when I used to teach at a university. The first time I picked up an application form from an 18 year old applicant, which had the year of birth filled in as '2000', I thought it was a typo. It barely seemed like a handful of years since I'd been seeing in the new millenium at some sleazy nightclub --and here I was interviewing 'adults', who weren't even born then.
They were made by companies specializing in imaging, had decent sized sensors, glass lenses, and no fake computational/"AI" photography.
And they were JPEG, so they were "fake" computational.
>They were terrible....
I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them? Probably went bankrupt, soon after inflicting that monstrosity on an unsuspecting world.
Because Gen Z grew up with parents who used these digital cameras, it makes sense to covet them now. And luckily they're easily attainable because they're cheap. Film is a luxury for a past that was never theirs.