Maybe it’s “romance of analog” BS, but it’s fascinating to me that a hundred-year-old Argus, or a $10, deliberately imperfect Lomo, can take beautiful pictures, but this thing that I bought five years ago looks like crap – if I can find a battery for it that’ll hold a charge, not to mention the proprietary USB cable / memory card / whatever. I guess at some point most cameras will have a resolution where the distinction between film and digital will genuinely no longer be relevant (setting aside the character of the chemical process of exposure, which I suppose could be emulated in software) but even at that point, CCDs and capacitors wear out in a way that a dark box and a clear lens just don’t.
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