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I don't understand why people are supposed to want this, other than nostalgia. "We care about analog..." and all of that sounds nice, but why? Is this like some
by Aelinsaar 11y ago
I don't understand why people are supposed to want this, other than nostalgia. "We care about analog..." and all of that sounds nice, but why? Is this like some people still preferring vacuum tubes for certain applications, because there is an objective benefit?
Is this just nostalgia?
- themartorana 11y agoHey, nostalgia got us Instagram, and Polaroid would love a piece of that billion dollar market.
- peteforde 11y agoNo: instant photography is genuinely fun and interesting. It leaves a real artifact of a moment. As formats go, the square Polaroid just clicked for people. Tempted to throw down some cliched McLuhan quotes but instead I'll just point out that Fuji Instax continues to be a big seller with teenage girls who wouldn't know a Polaroid camera if it attacked them. I guess another answer is that we still have supermarkets and restaurants even though Soylent has been shipping for quite some time, now.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoI don't see digital photography as the "Soylent" of photography, but maybe I'm missing something. After all, your ability to print a digital photograph is not in doubt. I didn't know about the Instax though, so whatever I think, there is clearly a market.