Gen Zs ride nostalgia wave to bring vintage digicams back in style
Young sellers of old compact cameras are setting up online and physical stores
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[SINGAPORE] For some young Singaporeans, grainy low-resolution photographs have become a coveted aesthetic – and the outdated cameras that create them are a hot commodity.
Just as older hipsters had a penchant for vintage film cameras, today’s 20-somethings are bringing digital compact cameras back into popularity.
Known colloquially as digicams, these were all the rage in the 2000s, but fell out of favour when smartphones overtook them a decade or so later.
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