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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Digital cameras from the early 2000s are becoming must-have gadgets for many young people because of a burgeoning trend online. Search traffic for old kit on online marketplaces like eBay and Etsy is on the rise.<\/p>\n

And in the past 12 months, videos with the hashtag #digitalcamera have amassed more than 220 million views on TikTok. Analysts describe the trend as being linked to similar revivals of turn of the century fashion.<\/p>\n

Scott Ewart, 32, who lives on the Isle of Arran, has clocked up more than five million likes on his TikTok account, using what is now considered retro kit.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cA lot of folk find them quite comforting. It reminds them of their childhood, it reminds them of simpler times. \u201cI find it quite refreshing going back to something so simple.<\/p>\n

With older cameras you have to work with them a bit more, to get a good photo or to get the most out of them. \u201cBecause with every smartphone you buy, you can\u2019t take a bad shot almost.<\/p>\n

\u201d Scott started by digging out old cameras belonging to his parents, but has quickly expanded his collection to more than 30 pieces of kit.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI get folk asking me, \u2018where do you edit these photos, are they edited?\u2019. And I always say these are never edited and I want to show exactly how they\u2019ve come out on every camera.<\/p>\n

\u201d EBay UK told the BBC the last three months of 2022 saw increases in people seeking the devices. This included a 13% rise in search traffic for \u201cvintage digital camera\u201d, and a 52% rise for \u201crefurbished camera\u201d.<\/p>\n

Etsy, which focuses on handmade and vintage items, has also seen a growing interest from shoppers in the last six months. It currently has more than 19,000 items linked to digital cameras listed online.<\/p>\n

Katie Glasgow, 25, lives in Brooklyn, New York and calls herself \u201cthe oldest possible Gen Z\u201d. She has also been using her parents\u2019 old kit to make images and video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like memories, because it\u2019s blurry and imperfect. It looks more like how we remember things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For younger people, who will have virtually no recollection of these cameras in their 2000s heyday, this opens up a kind of \u201cnostalgic world\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the cameras my older sister took to prom or my brother had in college, or my young childhood memories were recorded on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith your phone you can take videos and pictures of literally everything. So your library is huge, versus with this you kind of have to decide, \u2018this is a moment I actually want to preserve\u2019.<\/p>\n

Paul Greenwood, head of research and insight at the creative agency We Are Social, said it was a \u201cnatural cycle\u201d where when people hit their 20s \u201cthey become nostalgic for the cultural touchstones of their youth\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey want to feel comforted when in the real world they feel uncomfortable. And there\u2019s some reasons why people are feeling uncomfortable \u2013 like the existential dread you\u2019re seeing with Ukraine, the pandemic, wealth inequality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s seen as more real and authentic.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing this trend really play out, because the grainy kind of content you see is basically shorthand for authenticity and realness. That\u2019s what Gen Z are looking for. \u201d You can watch this story on the BBC\u2019s technology programme Click, available on iPlayer.<\/p>\n

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