Vintage digicams aren’t just a fad. They’re an artistic statement.

Photo caption: Spanish director Isabel Coixet films with a digicam on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of the film “The International” on the opening night of the 59th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin in 2009. Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Brendan Nystedt, WIRED.com. ArsTechnica – November 29, 2024. This article originally appeared on wired.com.

Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras. It’s not surprising that, perhaps as a reaction to the ubiquity of the phone, some young creative photographers are leaving their handsets in their pockets in favor of compact point-and-shoot digital cameras—the very type that camera manufacturers are actively discontinuing. […]

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