Compact cameras are making a comeback as demand for Nikon Coolpix soars by over 8,000% – and it's little to do with cameras

Pink Nikon Coolpix S6900 camera on a pink background.

It's 2024, and retro-styled digital cameras like the new Fujifilm X100VI are very much in, but research by musicMagpie has delivered surprising findings about the genuinely retro tech that people are really searching for online.

While film photography is certainly in vogue, with Gen Z turning to point-and-shoot cameras like the Kodak Ektar H35, it turns out that digital compact cameras from the 2000s and 2010s, like the Nikon Coolpix S6900 (pictured above), are making a comeback.