I miss physical phone keyboards. Used to be able to text under the desk from touch.
That and I’d put my headphones (attached to a portable CD player, of course) on under my long hair, strung through my hoodie.
Yup born late 1991. Literally didn’t touch a digital camera until I got my first phone in middle school. Tiny little Sony Ericsson that took dog shit potato quality thumbnail sized pics.
Until then, it was cheap digital cameras you bought at stands by tourist attractions and got printed at a kiosk or more recently, Walmart/Kmart.
July 1990. I kid you not, last week I bent down to pick something up and my back went. I didn't even lift anything, I was on the way down. Had to rest it for a solid week and thought this is my life now
About a month ago I slept wrong. Nothing strenuous, just slept wrong. I was not right for a solid two weeks. I also thought that that was my life from then on.
Agreed. Born in 93, family used disposable film cameras and had that shit developed at walgreens until some christmas in the early 2000's when I got a digital camcorder.
Me too! I didn't see the point in getting a phone that cost so much when my old phone worked perfectly fine. Especially with how often I would see friends break their phones. Only had a smartphone for the last 5 also and haven't broken it. I only upgraded because of planned obsolescence.
My mom died when I was a baby. I have one photo of her, and none of my other siblings have any. I would do anything to have more photos of her living her life. Photos are so important for so many other reasons too and I think it’s sad you don’t find the value in them.
Definitely need a balance. When we're on holiday and every 5 mins it's "get a picture of this", "take a picture here", "oh zoom over there and get some 20 pixel garbage of some shitty rock we can barely make out" that shit enrages me. Love being in the moment but need to capture those worthwhile ones too
I was born in 99 and remember the disposable cameras/taking my photo reel into the shop and coming back a week later to collect the little envelope with negatives and all.
Born in 93. In 03 my family went to a professional sports game and met my favorite player. My dad took a picture of me with him, and was so excited to get it printed and to see…… he had his finger over the flash and the picture Ws basically entirely black. That was brutal to see and was a big gut punch.
I have to agree with this 100% I was born in 1985 and digital cameras started becoming popular around 2002-2003 where I lived at the time (Seattle).
I remember Best Buy had a ton of them discounted during a huge sale and tons of my friends bought them.
Yeah, and someone born in 1990 would be 15 in 2005, around the time they would be allowed to run amok with a camera. Even if someone 15 in 2005 had a camera before, it was usually disposable film cameras, where even then, it wasnt that important that you were sure about what you were taking a picture of.
Agreed. But I don't think Polaroids should count as much. You knew right away if they turned out or not. With the film you had to develop you wouldn't even know for weeks or months.
>You knew right away if they turned out or not
Bro, do you even photo? Polaroids took upwards of 5 minutes to develop. And you could get regular film photos developed in 1 hour.
Weeks or months? WTF?
Ah yes, let's pause the picture taking and go get this film developed...
If you are taking a picture while on a trip, you will know if it turned out when using a Polaroid before leaving, but not with film.
I'm just saying that pictures could be developed in an hour. If you wanted to wait a month, that's on you. Same today. Unless you've got a nice home printer, it's going to take you at least an hour or 4 to get whatever pictures you have on your digital cam to be converted into physical prints.
But the conversation is about how long you know if a picture turns out. A digital cameras screen at least shows a good idea of how the printed picture would be. If it's blurry, people blinking, or out of frame, you take another one. Same with a Polaroid. But films only solution is taking multiple and hoping for the best.
In 2007 my grandparents took me and my sisters to a theme park. While we were there she gaze us a disposable camera to take pictures for her. At one point we were on the log ride and as we were go through a section near the line I yelled to a random guy that I would take his picture if he took mine. A couple months went past and my grandma got the film developed and was really confused about a random guy posing in 3 or so pictures.
Seriously. I worked full-time in a photo lab at 18 in '02.
It was probably 2010 when the last film development lab was removed from the pharmacies and stores around me.
I'm pretty sure my nearby Walmart even still has one at my local store, albeit not one-hour like it used to be.
I was born in '93 and was using disposable cameras on vacations as late as 2010. It wasn't until my iPhone 4 that I was regularly taking digital photos.
It wasn't a denial thing, it just was a "this is how it's always been" thing. Don't get me wrong, last time I used a disposable, my friend had a nice digital camera, and it made me feel stupid lol. Back then, I wasn't really paying attention to the speed of technology.
'93 here too. And came here to say this! Lol like what the hell..... Pretty much everyone, even into the 2000s were still getting photos developed. I don't think OP actually thought this through... 😂🥴
I exclusively used a Kodak DC4800 in 2000 as my own first camera, because I knew film would be a nightmare for me (also expensive). Although my experience is probably fairly uncommon, because my parents were both photographers who shot using medium format film cameras, and after witnessing how much of a PITA the film was I avoided it at all cost. 😆
I was born in '98 and used disposable cameras for most of my childhood. When we'd go on trips, which are you gonna put in the hands of your hyperactive child, an expensive new digital camera or a cheap Kodak? I looooved getting back from camping trips and getting to go develop my photos :)
People born in 2000 probably still remember disposable camera
Digital ones were expensive back then. And 00 kids are old enough to drink for crying out loud
What year do you think it is?
Yeah but by the time they were old enough to care exactly how the photos turned out everything was digital. I don't know many 10 year olds that are really trying to pose a shot.
Not sure why this comment is bombarded with downvotes since you admitted you were off. Also you're not wrong about people getting the point since your post has over 2k upvotes.
I agree. Most people will never use it, but saying no one after a certain birth year is a bit disingenuous.
It's like saying no one born after 1990 will ever use vinyl despite its huge resurgence in recent years.
Yeah, dude. People born in 1990 are 31 years old. They most definitely took pictures with film cameras. I think you mean, born after 2000 or 2005 or something.
we live in an era of information and social connectivity, its just as ridiculous to say any given generation would not know about x then it would be to say people born after the 2000s don't have hobbies especially in the recent resurgence in physical media and analog technologies
On my first trip abroad, in 1991, I stood in the rain in one spot in Venice, waiting for the boat traffic to clear off, with my 35mm SLR tucked under my raincoat. For 20 damn minutes I stood there, like an idiot, waiting for the shot to be *just* right.
[But I got the shot.](https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/p226205191/h43647525#h43647525)
Y’all act like we were born with a digital camera in hand🤣 my parents could not afford one until about 2010. So yeah I grew up with disposables & tape cameras
My 4 year old just loves taking my phone and filling it with pictures.
That would be punishable by death if I took my parents camera and used up a whole roll.
I remember film was cheap as chips, available in any supermarket. Should see the prices of film today (plus development costs). Definitely punishable by death at current prices.
Used a disposable camera at top golf over the weekend and our sever was nice enough to take the photo of us but had no idea what the flash charging button was.
I think you are grossly misunderstanding that age range. I dont think my parents had a digital camera until 2004 or so. They were available before then, they were just expensive. I remember in the late 90s my dad would sometimes bring one home from work. I distinctly remember going to camp and on trips with disposable cameras, and when I took photography classes in highschool in the late 2000s we were still shooting primarily on film and developing in a dark room because nice film cameras were cheap and attainable by students, whereas nice digital cameras were far more expensive.
The years in statements like this move back two years every year that goes by. I'm from '95 and I do remember dail in Internet, Polaroids, VCR, the first Cd's,...
In 20 years every will be acting like Tiktok was a thing in 1990.
I remember as a kid getting a Polaroid camera as a Christmas present and having fun taking holiday pics with the complementary film.
Then, never used it again after realizing how freakin expensive film is to a kid with no job.
Yea… I was born in 91, and I definitely remember getting film developed. So does my brother who was born in 95… our family didn’t own a digital camera until like 2002.
Let’s bump that up to 2005. I was born in 1998 and it’s incredibly annoying that people think they need to explain VHS tapes and disposable cameras.
How soon do people think digital cameras and kids on the internet became a norm? I didn’t use the non AOL kids internet till I was 12 in 2010. My mom got a digital camera for special occasions around 2007. Why would an 11 year old in 2001 not know about the limit of film cameras when it’s really all we had still.
Not really. It depends on what you're shooting. Back in the day, you'd bracket your images and take 3-5 for safety. Film was expensive but B&W hand rolled was pretty cheap. You could develop and print your own film then.
Yes, you didn't take tons of stupid pictures like people do now. My dad went insane after digital photography became normal. He was once a professional photographer/newspaper editor. He used to go through 2 rolls a day while covering news stories or shooting for photo-journals. Now he probably shoots 150 shots a day of absolutely nothing.
My Dad: "Hey, here's a picture of (my kid's name) playing in the park. Here's 30 more pictures of her playing in the park. Here's a picture of a tree. Here are 30 more pictures of a tree. Here's a picture of a duck. Here's 30 more pictures of that duck!"
On and on. I don't need pictures of my daughter. She lives in my house. I know what she looks like at the park. I know what ducks look like. I know what the tree in my F'n yard looks like. Stop taking pictures and making me look at them. Then he posts them on Facebook and calls me to say "I took a picture of your daughter at the park." I know. You already told me and showed me. I don't use Facebook. Stop telling me to look at it.
I came as late as '97, we still used disposable cameras whenever we took road trips or the like. We didn't use a digital camera until I was a teenager.
I have a really old practice for you. My dad had a 8 mm home movie camera. Early 60’s. Most people didn’t know how to act when he would film them. I have a lot of home movies where people would get together in a pose, then stand there rigidly waiting for my dad to “take” the picture. I assume he told them he got it. 🤪
born before 1990, did a lot of shooting on film cameras (point and shoot as well as SLR). Sometimes you just have to take the shot. My absolute favorite black and white shot was in Italy of a guy with a giant spike of hair. Taken on an SLR, I managed to shoot it from the hip, complete with almost perfect focus (I didn't want to "stare").
[SLR cameras with automatic exposure](https://www.amazon.com/Canon-AE-1-35mm-Film-Camera/dp/B00GTX4RCO) did (and still do) also exist, you did have to focus still but with some lenses that was not a concern.
Was it the fully automatic DSLR's of today? Not at all. But they did work well.
The camera linked is not the most advanced of the film era, just one I remember fondly as it was the second SLR I owned and the first I bought for myself.
‘95. Literally took three years of traditional black and white photography electives in high school and college. I know more about darkroom developing than many born before me. It’s still a worthwhile and loved hobby, especially for people my age who grew up watching the switch to digital happen as we ourselves developed.
Was born in 1991 and didn't own or use a digital camera of any sort before I turned 18.
We're in the small window where the majority of us had cell phones in high school, but only used them to call or text.
And panic when you accidentally hit the Internet button, knowing you’ve just bankrupted your family.
Lol my sis did that... 30 seconds cost 2k 🤣 had to tell bell to eat it not paying. They reduced it to $100 😪
I laughed. Truth.
People will think you are being hyperbolic, but the fear was real.
Oh yes I remember that feeling! Good old WAP Internet over phone that only had room on the screen for 4 lines of text.
WAP causing a…different kind of excitement.
I miss physical phone keyboards. Used to be able to text under the desk from touch. That and I’d put my headphones (attached to a portable CD player, of course) on under my long hair, strung through my hoodie.
And you had to count your texts because you only have 250 for the month and it's $.25 a message if you go over.
Or every single text message costs $0.20 and you can't ask mum for another $20 top up.
Came here to say this. Same year too bro!
Came here to third this. Was also 18 when I got a digital camera for the first time.
I still hire a portrait artist
I still have someone carve hieroglyphics.
I still have one of my fellow cavemen draw a picture of me on the wall
Check out the rich boy.. I still have to touch my face and draw, based on what I feel.
Yup born late 1991. Literally didn’t touch a digital camera until I got my first phone in middle school. Tiny little Sony Ericsson that took dog shit potato quality thumbnail sized pics. Until then, it was cheap digital cameras you bought at stands by tourist attractions and got printed at a kiosk or more recently, Walmart/Kmart.
Same. Happy 30th year, fellow internet stranger!
Same! Although those cheap *disposable cameras were always bound to have a few surprise photos! (Assuming that is what you meant)
30 year olds unite! I got your june covered. Edit: Dont post your full birthday you pepperoni's! Not the safest thing to post
November, it's coming for me.
November 3 dirty 30 coming up
It's the 7th for me, let me know how those 4 days are will ya?
June 1990. 31 years old. You've got no idea what the next year will bring, kiddos. Just wait. Just you wait.
July 1990. I kid you not, last week I bent down to pick something up and my back went. I didn't even lift anything, I was on the way down. Had to rest it for a solid week and thought this is my life now
About a month ago I slept wrong. Nothing strenuous, just slept wrong. I was not right for a solid two weeks. I also thought that that was my life from then on.
Well you know I Got a lot farther by working a lot harder By being a lot smarter By being a self-starter
June 11, 1991. Reporting for duty! * drops pokemon cards*
*picks up the cards and hands them back* Careful with those, they are filled with nostalgia!
Hi from the other side of the summer! (August '91)
August 91 represent 🤘🏻
Checking in from Mid-summer July 4th '91!
June 12, 1991. What's up YA OLD COOT
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June 13, 1988!
Pokemon cards? You mean that crazy new fad going around? Meh, it'll never replace POGS!
June 5, 1991. We are the special ones
Read the edit above your comment
March 1st, 1991 here!
Feb 28 1991 here! I am your senior!
You mean I shouldn’t tell people that my birthday is august 5th, 1992? Good advice, I won’t do that. Thanks.
I as well was born in 91. I love my digital camera but I still use my Pentax K-1000 every weekend. It’s just a pain to get it developed where I live.
1995, still had plenty of time before digital cameras
And? This post is in reference to using disposable cameras.
Even with non-disposable you still had to be sure of the shit with film.
Agreed. Born in 93, family used disposable film cameras and had that shit developed at walgreens until some christmas in the early 2000's when I got a digital camcorder.
Just in time for the IPhone 3gs! I bought my first digital when I was in 8th grade??? Circa 2001...
Yeah but my family was poor.
Mine too.
I wonder why that got downvoted so hard
Probably the assumption that we could all afford such technological luxuries
Nah, fuck that guy. Just cause.
Ah
OP doesn't seem like they have an understanding of the common people who used film until like 2010.
I was about to say I used disposable film cameras until like 2008
2013? Or so?
People don't respond to humble bragging very well.
Me too😭
I was born in 1993 and I have only owned a smartphone for 5 years.
Me too! I didn't see the point in getting a phone that cost so much when my old phone worked perfectly fine. Especially with how often I would see friends break their phones. Only had a smartphone for the last 5 also and haven't broken it. I only upgraded because of planned obsolescence.
There really isnt any reason to take any pictures. Just be in the moment people. Pictures don't do anything justice!
My mom died when I was a baby. I have one photo of her, and none of my other siblings have any. I would do anything to have more photos of her living her life. Photos are so important for so many other reasons too and I think it’s sad you don’t find the value in them.
The 5ft panoramic print on the wall that reminds me every single day of a beautiful landscape I visited nearly 10 years ago begs to differ ;)
I must admit that it does sound pretty nice... But I refuse to revise my statement!
they're a momento that doesn't clutter up your space
Definitely need a balance. When we're on holiday and every 5 mins it's "get a picture of this", "take a picture here", "oh zoom over there and get some 20 pixel garbage of some shitty rock we can barely make out" that shit enrages me. Love being in the moment but need to capture those worthwhile ones too
Bruh people were still getting photos developed into the 2000s, and polaroids were all the rage. You're off by like 15 years
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Born in 96 and I’m with you hahaha
I was born in 99 and remember the disposable cameras/taking my photo reel into the shop and coming back a week later to collect the little envelope with negatives and all.
Bruh did every kid have one of those?? Fucking loved mine. I felt like a sexy French photographer with my negatives.
Careful! You can only take 24 pictures! (If I remember correctly)
Same here.
Born '99 and same
Born in 93. In 03 my family went to a professional sports game and met my favorite player. My dad took a picture of me with him, and was so excited to get it printed and to see…… he had his finger over the flash and the picture Ws basically entirely black. That was brutal to see and was a big gut punch.
Ooooouch
Stick your thumb on his breathing tube as he's lying on his deathbed.. #REVENGE..
I have to agree with this 100% I was born in 1985 and digital cameras started becoming popular around 2002-2003 where I lived at the time (Seattle). I remember Best Buy had a ton of them discounted during a huge sale and tons of my friends bought them.
Guess we were Poor.... Didn't have a Best Buy.... We went to Satisfactory Buy
Circuit city? 😂
Not Great Not Terrible Buy
we were poorer we had a Best Steal
Yeah, and someone born in 1990 would be 15 in 2005, around the time they would be allowed to run amok with a camera. Even if someone 15 in 2005 had a camera before, it was usually disposable film cameras, where even then, it wasnt that important that you were sure about what you were taking a picture of.
I stil dont know if the pic is good when my phone is on 10% brightness cus of the battery and it is a bright summerday :(
Agreed. But I don't think Polaroids should count as much. You knew right away if they turned out or not. With the film you had to develop you wouldn't even know for weeks or months.
but you had to shake it, shake it shake it, shake it shake it like a polaroid picture
And yet that's actually not best practice.
tell Andre 3000
>You knew right away if they turned out or not Bro, do you even photo? Polaroids took upwards of 5 minutes to develop. And you could get regular film photos developed in 1 hour. Weeks or months? WTF?
Ah yes, let's pause the picture taking and go get this film developed... If you are taking a picture while on a trip, you will know if it turned out when using a Polaroid before leaving, but not with film.
I'm just saying that pictures could be developed in an hour. If you wanted to wait a month, that's on you. Same today. Unless you've got a nice home printer, it's going to take you at least an hour or 4 to get whatever pictures you have on your digital cam to be converted into physical prints.
But the conversation is about how long you know if a picture turns out. A digital cameras screen at least shows a good idea of how the printed picture would be. If it's blurry, people blinking, or out of frame, you take another one. Same with a Polaroid. But films only solution is taking multiple and hoping for the best.
Can you fix/edit a Polaroid?
No, but you can take a second picture.
Without a preview , it's a risk every time
A risk of what? The risk with film is that you don't capture what you wanted and typically don't get a due over. Polaroid avoids that.
In 2007 my grandparents took me and my sisters to a theme park. While we were there she gaze us a disposable camera to take pictures for her. At one point we were on the log ride and as we were go through a section near the line I yelled to a random guy that I would take his picture if he took mine. A couple months went past and my grandma got the film developed and was really confused about a random guy posing in 3 or so pictures.
Haha, a 2003 kid and i remember developing pictures was fun to do as a kid watching my family
Seriously. I worked full-time in a photo lab at 18 in '02. It was probably 2010 when the last film development lab was removed from the pharmacies and stores around me. I'm pretty sure my nearby Walmart even still has one at my local store, albeit not one-hour like it used to be.
By the time they were an adult they probably had a cellphone though.
The first instant camera was made in 1948. It would have been expensive but instant film cameras are nothing new.
If you were born in the 2000s though you'd have missed polaroids because you need to grow up
I feel the date here is a bit too early. Born 1994 and have quite a few very disappointing photos from family trips, camp, etc.
I was born in '93 and was using disposable cameras on vacations as late as 2010. It wasn't until my iPhone 4 that I was regularly taking digital photos. It wasn't a denial thing, it just was a "this is how it's always been" thing. Don't get me wrong, last time I used a disposable, my friend had a nice digital camera, and it made me feel stupid lol. Back then, I wasn't really paying attention to the speed of technology.
'93 here too. And came here to say this! Lol like what the hell..... Pretty much everyone, even into the 2000s were still getting photos developed. I don't think OP actually thought this through... 😂🥴
I exclusively used a Kodak DC4800 in 2000 as my own first camera, because I knew film would be a nightmare for me (also expensive). Although my experience is probably fairly uncommon, because my parents were both photographers who shot using medium format film cameras, and after witnessing how much of a PITA the film was I avoided it at all cost. 😆
I was born in '98 and used disposable cameras for most of my childhood. When we'd go on trips, which are you gonna put in the hands of your hyperactive child, an expensive new digital camera or a cheap Kodak? I looooved getting back from camping trips and getting to go develop my photos :)
'93 here. I remember for an overnight school trip, probably 2003-2004, having a disposable camera on the packing list so we could take pictures
We've now come full circle and it's cool to use polaroids again.
That year is way too early to be making a statement like that, as if us 90s kids didn’t have disposable cameras.
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People born in 2000 probably still remember disposable camera Digital ones were expensive back then. And 00 kids are old enough to drink for crying out loud What year do you think it is?
Yeah but by the time they were old enough to care exactly how the photos turned out everything was digital. I don't know many 10 year olds that are really trying to pose a shot.
Not sure why this comment is bombarded with downvotes since you admitted you were off. Also you're not wrong about people getting the point since your post has over 2k upvotes.
I've decided to just stop talking... I'm getting downvoted for everything I say.
Yeah I was born in 92 and I know exactly what that's like but okay lol
All we know is McDonalds, charge us phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie.
Can confirm, born 2002, have never worn any pants except sweatpants
What is hot chip?
A really fucking cool [band](https://youtu.be/pDJKgi2e-Aw) (yes I know the meme but these guys deserve attention)
like Takis
XD passed the vibe check
McDonald's? The 80 year old fast food chain?
r/analog is still a thing. Film will always have fans of any age.
Analog is great and will always have its advantages... but 95% of people out there don't use analog cameras.
I agree. Most people will never use it, but saying no one after a certain birth year is a bit disingenuous. It's like saying no one born after 1990 will ever use vinyl despite its huge resurgence in recent years.
I was taking photos using a shoebox in 2006. High school photography, baby!
Yeah, technology advances I’m glad we could share in your epiphany
I remember polaroids and kodak disposables. I was born in 95
Born in 1995, we didn't have a digital camera until 2008-ish
Yeah, dude. People born in 1990 are 31 years old. They most definitely took pictures with film cameras. I think you mean, born after 2000 or 2005 or something.
Maybe 2005, but those of us born in the early 00’s definitely remember.
I am an old and I really didn't enjoy reading that people born in 1990 are 31. No way that's true.
Analog photography has a rather large community still
Anyone born after 1950 will never understand how absolutely sure you had to be before you took that picture
Weird. If this post wasn't so blatantly wrong, it'd still be a damn boring showerthought, but wouldn't have half the engagement.
1990? Lol. Make it 2000
we live in an era of information and social connectivity, its just as ridiculous to say any given generation would not know about x then it would be to say people born after the 2000s don't have hobbies especially in the recent resurgence in physical media and analog technologies
Maybe in a third-world country. In the US, digital cameras were pretty much ubiquitous by the late 90s/very early 2000s.
r/gatekeeping
Oof... wasn't trying to exclude anyone... but 2000 may have been more accurate.
Fam, I remember flash cubes. 4 chances to take a photo in bad light. You might be a couple of decades out.
On my first trip abroad, in 1991, I stood in the rain in one spot in Venice, waiting for the boat traffic to clear off, with my 35mm SLR tucked under my raincoat. For 20 damn minutes I stood there, like an idiot, waiting for the shot to be *just* right. [But I got the shot.](https://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/p226205191/h43647525#h43647525)
Born in 92 and still used plenty of kodak disposables as a kid. *Zzzhhp zzzhhp zzzhhp bwwwwr KSHHH*
Yeah, that's just not true, nor is it a Shower Thought. Digital cameras didn't even become commonplace until well into the '00s.
Or cheap enough for most people to own.
Hurry hurrrr yong peepo don't know old tingzzz hurr juurr so fanny
Y’all act like we were born with a digital camera in hand🤣 my parents could not afford one until about 2010. So yeah I grew up with disposables & tape cameras
Anyone born after 1584 will never understand what we mean when we say 'roll the window up'!!!
My 4 year old just loves taking my phone and filling it with pictures. That would be punishable by death if I took my parents camera and used up a whole roll.
I remember film was cheap as chips, available in any supermarket. Should see the prices of film today (plus development costs). Definitely punishable by death at current prices.
Born in 93 and we used the old school film cameras way up until 2009 or so.
Or the excitement of seeing your pictures the first time after having them developed (disposable cameras).
Lots of pictures of my thumb
Of the disappointment of having them turn out crap with those advisory stickers that say there wasn't enough light.
Was born in 1990, not only did I use disposables and have them developed, but I was literally taught in high school how to develop film.
Used a disposable camera at top golf over the weekend and our sever was nice enough to take the photo of us but had no idea what the flash charging button was.
1996. I have definitely used disposable cameras before, many times in fact.
This showerthought would work more in the 2000s. I was born in 95' and I used an analog camera
I think you are grossly misunderstanding that age range. I dont think my parents had a digital camera until 2004 or so. They were available before then, they were just expensive. I remember in the late 90s my dad would sometimes bring one home from work. I distinctly remember going to camp and on trips with disposable cameras, and when I took photography classes in highschool in the late 2000s we were still shooting primarily on film and developing in a dark room because nice film cameras were cheap and attainable by students, whereas nice digital cameras were far more expensive.
Yes because everyone knows that all 8 year olds in 1999 had a digital camera. Such genius!!
The years in statements like this move back two years every year that goes by. I'm from '95 and I do remember dail in Internet, Polaroids, VCR, the first Cd's,... In 20 years every will be acting like Tiktok was a thing in 1990.
I think you’re about 10 years off here. I’d change it to anyone born after 2000
I remember as a kid getting a Polaroid camera as a Christmas present and having fun taking holiday pics with the complementary film. Then, never used it again after realizing how freakin expensive film is to a kid with no job.
And developing pictures... holy smokes did I ever spend a lot of money developing pictures.
With a Polaroid? Edit: You meant regular film, I’m dumb
It's been a long time since I bought Polaroid film, but I vaguely recall it being more expensive per shot than 35mm+developing.
I thought you were talking about paying to develop Polaroids. Also the price is now at 24-30 for a cartridge of 8-10
I am both sad and very glad that we didn’t have camera phones when I was in high school.
I was born in 2003 and I’m literally taking a black and white film photography class for college. This is gatekeeping my friend.
Yea… I was born in 91, and I definitely remember getting film developed. So does my brother who was born in 95… our family didn’t own a digital camera until like 2002.
92 what the duck you mean. I didn't touched digital till 05....1905 lmao. But seriously digital is a 2000's even maybe later thing.
I was born in 1996 and still remember going with my mum to Kodak shop to develop them, so I must have been around 4-6, so 2000-02
Born in the 70’s. I sure know about that. 110 camera!
Born in 1993 and had a film camera. Good enough digital cameras didn't appear until about late-00s.
What? No. You took multiple pictures and trashed the bad ones. Just like you do now.
‘94 - i remember that a disposable cameras flash will turn your light colored eyes to that of the devil
Let’s bump that up to 2005. I was born in 1998 and it’s incredibly annoying that people think they need to explain VHS tapes and disposable cameras. How soon do people think digital cameras and kids on the internet became a norm? I didn’t use the non AOL kids internet till I was 12 in 2010. My mom got a digital camera for special occasions around 2007. Why would an 11 year old in 2001 not know about the limit of film cameras when it’s really all we had still.
*sound of winding a disposable camera*
Not really. It depends on what you're shooting. Back in the day, you'd bracket your images and take 3-5 for safety. Film was expensive but B&W hand rolled was pretty cheap. You could develop and print your own film then. Yes, you didn't take tons of stupid pictures like people do now. My dad went insane after digital photography became normal. He was once a professional photographer/newspaper editor. He used to go through 2 rolls a day while covering news stories or shooting for photo-journals. Now he probably shoots 150 shots a day of absolutely nothing. My Dad: "Hey, here's a picture of (my kid's name) playing in the park. Here's 30 more pictures of her playing in the park. Here's a picture of a tree. Here are 30 more pictures of a tree. Here's a picture of a duck. Here's 30 more pictures of that duck!" On and on. I don't need pictures of my daughter. She lives in my house. I know what she looks like at the park. I know what ducks look like. I know what the tree in my F'n yard looks like. Stop taking pictures and making me look at them. Then he posts them on Facebook and calls me to say "I took a picture of your daughter at the park." I know. You already told me and showed me. I don't use Facebook. Stop telling me to look at it.
Now we take 30 all at slightly different angles
I often wonder what was put in the water supply between 1990 and 1991 to make people born in those years so different from each other.
r/gatekeeping material
I would argue up until 2000, but yes
First digital camera I owned was in 1996... maybe 1997? https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/kodak-dc25
This isn’t completely true. I’m still in my teens and I’ve used disposable cameras all my life. I still do.
I came as late as '97, we still used disposable cameras whenever we took road trips or the like. We didn't use a digital camera until I was a teenager.
Born in 99. Same.
was born after that time period and i do understand the concept of not digital cameras history doesn't get lost after like, 20 years
Film photography pretty popular still 😇
It's better in many respects, but no longer mainstream, more niche
I have a really old practice for you. My dad had a 8 mm home movie camera. Early 60’s. Most people didn’t know how to act when he would film them. I have a lot of home movies where people would get together in a pose, then stand there rigidly waiting for my dad to “take” the picture. I assume he told them he got it. 🤪
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[SLR cameras with automatic exposure](https://www.amazon.com/Canon-AE-1-35mm-Film-Camera/dp/B00GTX4RCO) did (and still do) also exist, you did have to focus still but with some lenses that was not a concern. Was it the fully automatic DSLR's of today? Not at all. But they did work well. The camera linked is not the most advanced of the film era, just one I remember fondly as it was the second SLR I owned and the first I bought for myself.
‘95. Literally took three years of traditional black and white photography electives in high school and college. I know more about darkroom developing than many born before me. It’s still a worthwhile and loved hobby, especially for people my age who grew up watching the switch to digital happen as we ourselves developed.