To love the new disposable camera trend?

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I really want to start taking photos again with them ... but can you even get them developed anymore?

You can buy film cameras which aren't disposable very cheaply, and they take much better quality photos but still have the aesthetic people who buy disposables are going for. I have an old Olympus and it can be used as many times as you like, just pop a new reel of film in. Mine is older than me, fully refurbished and cost about £15 on eBay. A lot of my mid twenties peers are using disposables now, I do think it's a growing trend, which is odd given how much people like to virtue signal on environmental issues nowadays.

Harry?

Unless you're living on a self sufficient homested cut off from the rest of the world wearing foraged cow hind as clothing i don't think any of us are able to throw stones.

I don't know, to me it seems like starting to use disposable cameras when you haven't before is like going out of your way to be wasteful. Like taking a step backwards.

They definitely used to be recycled.

I think you do get a different type of picture from actually developing a film, rather than printing a digital picture, but I'm not convinced that that's what is driving this trend that I'd never heard of.

Single use anything is a stupid, retrograde step IMO.
And no, I won’t shut up about plastic.

I don't understand why anyone would want a camera where you have to take the film or camera to be developed.
You pay out good money and wait days for your pics of people's heads chopped off, a close up of your finger and most of them so blurred you wonder if you were pissed when you took them.
Along with that absolutely unidentifiable one with a sticker from the developer stuck on it.

This absolutely reeks of attention seeking wankery. Like the hipsters who sit in cafes with typewriters and record players.

I need to find these cafe's @HowLovely
Just so I can sit agog at such pretentious nobbers.

And maybe break an LP or two over their pretentious bonces.

And AFAIK, the 'disposable camera trend' was about 7 years ago! (And lasted for only a season thankfully...)

It really wasn’t and it’s very relevant at the moment. HTH.

22LoreleiRock
'Use an app, fool.'

Mr T is that you? 😂

I haven’t seen or heard anything about a trend for disposable cameras on instagram or anywhere else. They are shit, they take shit photos. Not quirky, just shit.

If you want to get him into film photography buy him a Pentax K1000 and teach him to use a manual SLR. Or if you want quirkier, buy a Holga and deal with the cost of processing 120 film.

They are rubbish and bad for the environment. There is no trend. YABU

@CassianAndor

Oh dear oh dear, you sound very childish indeed. And, FWIW, 2 vegetarians in my house (out of 3people), we haven’t been on a plane for 12 years and have a car that has very low emissions so I don’t pay vehicle tax, DH cycles to work, Dd walks to school, I get public transport, I recycle etc etc etc.

Why do you have a car at all then when you use public transport and your husband cycles? And what kind of car is it?

What about a Lomo? They’re not very expensive and give differing vintage type effects but are reusable film cameras.

( disposable anything is inferior IMO and we should all be trying our best to find better alternatives. Recycling is better than landfill but it’s better not to have to do that in the first place. And just because we’re not perfect is not an excuse to not try at all or to act like a dick )

It really wasn’t and it’s very relevant at the moment. HTH.

And yet you don’t know that you can still get film developed?

Not only are you a good, you’re a passé fool.

There is an app called HUJI that lets you take photos with your iPhone that look like disposable camera pictures - it's really good and totally gives me a nostalgia fix.

Maybe a good compromise to get the aesthetic you want without the environmental impact

+Yes yes. Everyone is suddenly all about the environment. I mean are any of you even vegan seeing as the meat and dairy industry has one of the biggest impacts on the environment.*

This is usually trotted our what there is nothing reasonable to be said. It’s a very stupid thing to say.

And disposable everything is a bod idea.

blueoasis a quick google will show cars that have no vehicle tax - mine is one of them.

My last car I bought new, when I sold it 16 years later it had less than 60,000 miles on the clock. Weekend trips and holidays. Of course I could probably do without it.

I don’t think you know what the word ‘relevant’ means, OP.

Oh shut up about plastic, please.

Wtf? 😂

The ‘there are other things damaging the environment so I’m going to do it too’ argument just doesn’t make sense to me.

Why not get a decent digital camera and print out the ones you like?

The "trend" (if it even is that) is for polaroid pictures not disposable camera pictures.

Does OP work for a disposable camera co by any chance?

The "trend" (if it even is that) is for polaroid pictures not disposable camera pictures.

I didn’t realise how on trend you are. Guess you should contact Vogue to alert them to this fact.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vogue.com/article/disposable-cameras-model-red-carpet-accessories/amp

There was a thread about pre-pasted disposable toothbrushes OP.

You might want to look at it.