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"Digital" doesn't mean anything more. I live in Japan where Instax instant camera are super popular. Fujifilm makes more money off of making and selling Polaro
by kalleboo 3y ago
"Digital" doesn't mean anything more.
I live in Japan where Instax instant camera are super popular. Fujifilm makes more money off of making and selling Polaroid-style analog instant film than any single other business. The Impossible Project is cute and fun for hipsters but Instax has been there making film all along.
But they realized that young women today aren't happy how they look, and they want to use Instagram-style beauty filters on themselves, so they started selling Instax Bluetooth printers. They take analog instant film cartridges, but they use an LCD to imprint the photo onto them. So now you get the nostalgia of Polaroid photos, but you can edit your face as much as you want. Is this digital or analog?
- bordercases 3y agoThe real argument is around degrees of reconstruction in image. Cameras never depict light fully faithfully in the analog world.
- kalleboo 3y agoAnd even in the fully analog days there was plenty of doctoring of photos, it just wasn't as accessible to the common man without the equipment. Famously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union#Censorship_of_historical_photographs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
- sandworm101 3y ago>> use an LCD to imprint the photo onto them. It's just blurry digital. The polaroid film is acting as a really lossy medium for the digital information. Look close enough and you will likely still find artifacts of digital photography in the "film" printout.