Syed Imran Haider 
In the early 2000s, digital cameras took the world by storm. The rising burgeoning online trend made them must-have gadgets for individuals, especially youngsters. Etsy and eBay are some of the online marketplaces to receive increased search traffic for the old kit.
Over the past year, videos accompanied #digitalcamera hashtag have accumulated more than 220 million views on social media like TikTok. According to analysts, the trend emerged linked to similar restorations of the change of the century fashion.
The 32-year-old TikToker, Scott Ewart, has over five million likes on his TikTok account. The individual who belongs to Arran Island received this large number of user likes through the retro kit. Ewart says many people find themselves quite soothing since it prompts childhood memories and reminds them of simple phases of their lives.
The TikToker finds it quite refreshing to get back to something genuinely simple. He began digging out his parents’ old cameras, though he has rapidly advanced his collections by more than 30 kits. People need to work a bit more when using older cameras to obtain high-quality images or make the most out of those gadgets.
Of course, every smartphone cannot guarantee high-quality images. Scot Ewart revealed that many people would where he edited those images. And he always tells them that he has never edited those pictures because he wanted to showcase exactly how they have come out on each camera.
A Rise in the Demand for Digital CamerasÂ
According to eBay UK, in the last quarter of 2022, an increasing number of people sought the devices. It comprised a thirteen percent increase in search engine traffic for vintage digital cameras. The eCommerce company also found a 52% surge for revamped cameras.
On the other hand, Etsy is known for its handmade and vintage items, also observed an increasing interest from online shoppers in the last couple of months. The site has listed over 19,000 products related to digital cameras following the surged demand.
Like Scott Ewart, 25-year-old Katie Glasgow has made the most out of her parent’s old camera kits to click photos and record videos. She lives in New York and names herself the oldest-possible Gen Z because of her creative collections with the old kits.
Katie says images taken from old cameras look like memories because of blurring and imperfections. They come in handy in demonstrating how people used to remember things.
She believes youngsters who do not have the memories of those cameras in their 2000s zenith reveal a self-made nostalgic realm. Katie’s older sister took cameras to prom, whereas her brother had some in college. She found her parents recording her young childhood memories on those old camera kits.
The head of the We Are Special agency, Paul Greenwood, said people in their 20s found it a natural cycle, and they acted wistful for cultural touchscreens of their childhood. Most of them long to feel comfortable when they are uncomfortable in the real world.
