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"Instant camera" is a phrase I haven't heard in what feels like a lifetime. Amazing how quickly they lost prevalence. Hearing it feels like a fever dream, I ha
by junon 5y ago
"Instant camera" is a phrase I haven't heard in what feels like a lifetime. Amazing how quickly they lost prevalence.
Hearing it feels like a fever dream, I had to question if I knew the phrase at all.
- gkop 5y agoFWIW they are still a thing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=instant+camera&ia=shopping&iax=shopping https://duckduckgo.com/?q=instant+camera&ia=shopping&iax=sho... My subjective, anecdotal sense of trends is that instant cameras were big in the 80s, faded in the 90s, and made a small (but sustained) comeback in the mid-2010s.
- ghaff 5y agoThe dates will differ but a lot of things (think vinyl albums) probably follow some sort of mainstream, obsolete, retro lifecycle.
- stickfigure 5y agoThese were common at Pivotal when I was last there. Everyone gets a snapshot for the pairing board. I bought one and did the same thing at my last company.
- sharikous 5y agoThey are popular today in the privacy conscious world (including people making nudes)
- skhr0680 5y agoGet a Fujifilm Instax and feel the memories come back
- fortran77 5y agoI would love to see the SX-70 remade, exact same folding design and size (and leather!) but with a computer printer inside.
- iNerdier 5y agoThis probably isn’t exactly what you mean but still… https://youtu.be/6CwaT4R5_WA https://youtu.be/6CwaT4R5_WA