A Look Into The Digital Camera Frenzy

Vintage always comes back in style, whether that be with clothing, music or in the way we capture memories. From film to polaroid to digital, cameras have undergone so many changes in the last century, but that does not stop people of the present revisiting the past. Personally, I have always loved photography, from snapping sunsets on my phone, decorating my room in polaroids, to taking portraits of my friends on a DSLR in secondary school. The summer before heading to University, I distinctly remember helping my parents declutter a random cupboard and discovering a treasure trove of vintage technology, specifically the cameras used to capture my childhood memories. At the time, I was constantly struggling with my love of taking millions of photos and a lack of phone storage, so discovering the first camera that came alive, after clicking in the battery, opened me up to what seemed like endless photo storage. That silver Sony Cybershot captured the memories of my final summer in Singapore and the beginnings of my life in Cardiff. Flash forward almost three years, I’m on my third digital camera, a deep blue Kodak PixPro FZ55. Something about the blinding flash of a digital camera in a nightclub, how it gives everyone a certain glow, and the carefree nature of the photos taken, are just some of the reasons I check my purse before every night out and start the morning after popping out the memory card and hooking it up to my laptop to view last night’s memories. It’s all about chasing that nostalgia; knowing that I can do what my parents once did and show my future children the best times of their mother’s life through a digital camera.

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