Cameras are back. Not photography — the meet-cute of iPhone and Instagram put that front and centre a decade and a half ago — but actual cameras, the kind that come with lenses and dials and shutter buttons. There has been a point-and-shoot resurgence: Kodak, which in 2012 announced it was quitting the camera business, has in the past couple of years dropped a handful of new models, all of them film. Smartphone filters have been relegated to the cutting-room floor.
Trouble is, it’s been so long since cameras were in vogue that there are increasingly few who know their aperture from their elbow. Equipment is one thing — but buying a Stradivarius does not a Nigel Kennedy make. Cameras cannot see or shoot by themselves; proper photos need those who know what they’re doing.
