To love the new disposable camera trend?

[MyLucifrr]

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

Many moons ago it was trendy to give wedding guests a disposable camera and set them loose at the reception.

I did this - most of the photos weren't anything special, but there was one that was simply amazing - the best photo of the whole day.

A couple of guests seemed to mistake the idea and think they were being given a free disposable camera, and never gave it back .

Buy a vintage Nikon and a 50mm lens from a second hand shop for peanuts

Pics will be way way better and with a nice analogue look

Also not a massive fan of super HD HDR type digital images

Best thing you can do with a disposable is make a crap tazer

CassianAndor you sound so patronising. Ignore the environmental warriors OP.

So you saw it in Vogue and immediately feel the need to embrace a trend?

Don’t be a sheep. Especially one that uses yet more single use plastic.

There are countless apps that give you a similar “look” to your pictures without the environmental impact.

So you saw it in Vogue and immediately feel the need to embrace a trend?

No. I follow someone who created an account on Instagram to upload disposable camera photos.

I loved how it looked.

I’m not a sheep. I’d only follow a trend if I genuinely liked it.

I only linked the Vogue article due to people staying it was not a trend when obviously it is.

How does one upload photos onto Instagram from a disposable camera?
This is completely unnecessary attention seeking. The women in that Vogue article look ridiculous.
I'm curious OP as to why you asked mumsnet if you can get film developed. You obviously have access to the internet, couldn't you have googled it? Or are you just backing up the fact that this absurd and wasteful fad is, indeed, attention seeking?

But what do you like so much about this?

You can achieve the same effects with a real camera or with a phone and apps, it's not worth following a trend that's so destructive.

Also,I suspect a disposable camera won't make you or the rest of the followers look like the supermodel "trendsetters".

Though I do apologise if I'm wrong and you are Gigi Hadid's long lost twin.

I didn’t realise how on trend you are.

Well you wouldn't obvs because this is an anonymous forum and you don't know who I am. But my name starts with "Gig" and ends in "adid" and I can tell you disposables are so yesterday darling.

The over arching trend is actually a return to film cameras - if you look on Instagram that’s what a lot of people are switching to.

You can get apps that mimic the exact look of disposable cameras, film cameras, Polaroid cameras.

Personally I think it’s an unnecessary expense and the idea of paying to get a film printed only to upload it to Instagram seems utterly pointless to me (not saying this what you want it for).

You can definitely still get them printed but unless I had a very specific use for the photos, ie would definitely print them out and display them I don’t think I’d bother.

And yes it’s all very well getting snarky with people who say it’s bad for the environment but it’s a fact, it is. Anything that’s part of the throwaway culture is, so I wouldn’t encourage it as a new habit if it’s not something you’re already into.

What is it specifically you like about the look of them?

^ you’re very cringe.

Trying to be all big bollocks saying there’s no such trend. Naming a trend that was current about a good 3/4 years ago. Then being shown you’re actually wrong and then making the most unfunny unimaginative joke ever.

I've downloaded the Huji app, so thank you to the posters who made that suggestion.

I'm a bit at the concept that it's fine to trash the environment because you like the look of something. Aren't we trying harder than that yet?

YABVVU

@MyLucifrr

If you like th look of them, the feel of them, there are on line places that will print picture form phone or camera to look and feel just like polaroids and / or disposables

Retro is VERY in at the moment so all of the online places are doing things like this

www.photobox.co.uk/shop/prints/retro-prints

My daughter was desperate for a mini Polaroid. I told her they were crap. Her dad bought her one, mainly, I think, to piss me off. Cost about 85 quid. The pictures were not mini, they were minuscule. And fuzzy. And very very expensive.
She used the film that came with th camera and it has sat on a shelf for a year. As I predicted it would.
One up to me
One down to the planet

I’m not a sheep.

Sure you're not!

I had no idea this was a trend. I had them on every table at my wedding in 1995!

My son has a great instax camera that prints retro style photos. Bought as a stocking filler, he's used it all through uni and still loves it.

@MyLucifrr I’m genuinely wondering if you still want to go ahead with it or if you’re willing to give the app a go instead?

@Littlelongdog - Ah but using an app isn't 'a trend'. Nobody will know she's using the app to take deliberately shit-looking photos! Nobody will take any notice of her!
She won't be able to take a digital photo of her developed photo to upload onto the Insta of all the trenches using disposable cameras then!
It's a TREND!!!

There’s an app which works like a disposable camera. You are limited in the number of photos, and you need to wait 24 hours for them to “develop” so you can see them. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head, but google should find it.

That's fuckin genius!

HowLovely ... are you ok hun?

#tooblessedtobestressed

OP YABU. Waste of the earth's resources.

Plot twist - I work for HUJI.

Thanks for the downloads ladies

Disposable cameras had a niche use when I was at secondary school in the 90s: the headmaster issued them to the locals, after complaints about pupils smoking in the nearby streets. Mumsnet would have been incandescent with rage. All that plastic waste, to say nothing of safeguarding!

Sure you do.
Imagine what you can buy with the commission from the four app downloads this idiotic post on mumsnet has gained you.