Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it

[LimyG]

Every generation does that.

True. SEGA should take note and re-release the SEGA Saturn, then 2 years later the DREAMCAST.
Such consoles would be totally cool. Gen Z would have never seen anything like it. (PS1 too)

 

[LimyG]

Gen Z is the generation that "discovers" everything that's been discovered 20-40 years ago.

As a Gen X myself I thing a 21" 4:3 black & white CRT TV would be amazing.
8k 108" OLED - How boring is that!!

 

[dangh]

And then they scan them in or photograph them again with their phones to upload them to instagram, where they become a compressed jpeg. Otherwise, how would there be analytics indicating to write this article?

If you pay for service or item with a card, you are leaving a lot of information in the shops, including your age, so it is trivial for sellers to create such statistics.

 

[RudyBob]

Folks used to actually take time to compose pics back then. (Most of them were still awful though.)

MTakes talent to compose the "perfect," picture regardless, digital or ye olde film.

Edit: Remember company, Kodak?
EDit of edit: @ShadowDeath, post #18 does.

Yes

 

[Underdog]

I don't think it has anything to do with an appreciation of film. More of an urge to be seen to be 'different' and 'edgy' on social media. It's not like they are just taking pictures, developing them and shoving them in a photo album. They are shoving them down everyone's throat on social media.

Because the poor dears don't know there is a world outside of social media.

 

[Underdog]

Not so modern.
A let the lab do developing of color films and do film scanning somewhere around year 2000 in my backwater town of 15.000 citizens.

PS: I used to develop B&W films on my own.

I discovered that B&W expressed my artistic shots much more effectively than colour. Less distraction I think, for the viewer.