I’ve come full circle as a photographer: After growing up with film, I went digital as a teenager, and now I’m a hybrid photographer who uses both digital and film. I’m not alone, and as retro tech resurges in trend, so too does the number of people searching for digital cameras that look like film.
I will be the first to say that even the most retro digital cameras don’t have the exact feel of film. You can’t 100 percent replicate film on digital. But just because a retro digital camera won’t have the exact feel as a true analog camera doesn’t mean that the search for a digital camera that looks like film is in vain. Retro digital cameras pull us out of our screen-saturated existence, force us to slow down, and create real images in the age of AI.
