Shot with a Sony DSC-T10 camera Credit: bao ngoĪfter years of online friendship between Ngo and Lee, the two met for the first time just a few years ago, and Lee's use of digicams came up in their conversations.
I just kept thinking that there has to be a way for photography to be more accessible because something I hear from people a lot is, 'Oh I want to get into photography but I can't afford a camera or gear.'" "I just didn't have money for equipment growing up and to this day I use fairly cheap equipment. "Growing up in a family that didn't have a lot of money, I think that financial accessibility in art is really important," she said. it's good for what it is, but I thought that it was kind of ridiculous that I have to spend this much money in order to not pay for film anymore." "I thought it had to be really great, and I don't regret. "When I switched from digital to film, I thought I had to have an expensive digital camera," Ngo told me. She eventually made the switch from film to digital because of rising costs, and in 2017, she started using a small point-and-shoot - a Sony Cybershot DSC-T10 - and hasn't put it down since. It quickly became a pricey endeavor thanks to the increasing cost of developing film. Ngo started taking pictures at a young age with a digicam, but built her career shooting primarily with film cameras. Ngo, whose work can be seen in magazines and on album covers, considers digicams a valuable tool not only because of the images they produce, but because of how affordable they are. To Lee, digicams are "wedged between this 'analog vs digital' debate going on in photography right now." They're often left behind in debates over the merits of what cameras to shoot with professionally, and according to Lee, "there is a social and philosophical aspect to this discussion that often gets ignored." They have the potential to start a conversation about who gets to participate in the art of photography. Though there's often debate between photographers who shoot exclusively using DSLR cameras versus those who use film exclusively, digicams rarely come up in these conversations, despite the beautiful results they produce. They teach me to get everything right in the moment because there is very little leeway to save the images in post if I expose wrong." "They teach me to be patient and careful with my photography. "They tend to create images with deep sharp focus, because of the optics and sensor size, so I must be cognizant of everything in the frame I can’t rely on bokeh to blur things out," Lee explained, referring to the photo effect that a shallow depth of field can produce in the background of images. In addition to being physically different from the popular DSLR camera of today, they also offer a different shooting experience than a DSLR or a smartphone camera would. She's right - they do produce distinctive images. "When I woke up, I had this feeling that there was something about the older cameras that I'd been missing - that they produced images that were truly unique." "I know this sounds really trite, but I basically had a dream one summer a few years ago where I saw a digicam JPEG of a mountain," Lee told me via email. With a collection spanning cameras from throughout the 2000s that she's amassed over the years - her first was a Canon PowerShot G2 - Lee is bonafide digicam lover, and her interest in these "vintage digital cameras" (a term dubbed by Digital Photography Review) all started with a dream. Lee, a photographer and GIF maestro based in Seattle, Washington is one of the fiercest advocates for the return of the digicam. Two of those moderators, Sofia Lee and Bao Ngo, founded the account after embarking on their own personal digicam journeys. As of publish date, it has 850 followers and three moderators who go through submissions to share work done by other photographers who shoot with digicams. Since its creation in January, the account's grown quickly over just seven months. If there's one place online for digicam users to show off their work in a community setting, it's The Instagram account posts photos from folks who've snagged a Canon Powershot A3500 from 2013 or a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 from 2008 and are ready to show the world that these little cameras can hold their own, even by 2018 standards. Now a few of those photographers are cultivating a community of digicam users and providing a platform to showcase work crafted using pre-iPhone portrait mode technology.
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