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It’s because they’ve all grown up with great digital cameras that take a good neutral photo. To get any sort of interesting film effects they’ve had to apply fi

It’s because they’ve all grown up with great digital cameras that take a good neutral photo. To get any sort of interesting film effects they’ve had to apply filters after the fact. These 2000s point and shoots take photos that look like a “retro” filter but straight out of the camera so it’s somehow more authentic. Also it’s a entire piece of hardware dedicated to this one seemingly simple task, which is endearing. But it’s also digital so it’s familiar. It’s from 20 years ago which means it’s something their parents probably used, so it’s personally relevant nostalgia too.

quartesixte 4y ago
> It’s from 20 years ago which means it’s something their parents probably used, so it’s personally relevant nostalgia too. Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now.
- Normille 4y ago
  >Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now. Interesting to muse on people's various "Now I feel ancient" moments. 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.