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>>4501799

you might also be missing when people took photos with the idea only a few of there friends would ever see them so they are more just fun and unserious and as a result more real feeling.
I dont think it is ever possible to get photos like this ever again as everybody knows anything can be posted online for millions to see so they dont act like this anymore in photos.

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>>4501823

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>>4501799
anon i really think ur on to something

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i couldnt find anything crazy too crazy tho. i gotta look more

>>4501823
Wilton's place?

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>>4501823
Yes that's the idea. Everything was organic. Your friend brought his camera to the hangout or to the amusement park. Wherever. Snapped a few pics of us all being silly and our true selves. The pictures rarely made their way online and if they did it was weeks later when they hooked it up to their PC.

I don't like all these retarded recreations by people under 25 trying to live secondhand nostalgia with their stupid filters. It completely misses the point. That specific digicam look was unique to the time period and is therefore associated with the purity of mankind.

>>4501799
Jump on pbase and go to the pages for any digishit camera. Usually you can find galleries of pics like this.

Search the camera on google followed by “pbase.” Much easier than using Pbase’s search system.

>>4501940
>secondhand nostalgia
I think the zoomzooms feel like they don't have anything of their own, that there is nothing distinct about this era which is why they latch on to times past when trying to find an identity.

>>4501950
This photo is true 2000s dad in US energy.
The resonance...

>>4501823
I think film can sometimes still capture this. I found my parents old PnS camera a few years back and started taking photos with friends and family, I think the idea of it being film made it feel more intimate to them since there was still the mindset of it being prints only and not posted on socials. A lot of the photos ended up being this kind of candid look since there is no "wait take it again" opportunity since you know the film is limited.

I also found some old video store and we took photos in front of it and the posing was done differently to the digital ones on our phone for some reason. It was like the old camera brought out the mindset of how old photos used to be or something.

>>4502534
Yep, that could literally be my dad in the 2000s. Entered his 50s, smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, his "computer room" was decked out in baseball merch, and he had dozens of DVD box sets. I'm sure that man in the photo is dead, as well.

it's weird how these photos are more interesting than something you might take with your phone today even though the quality of a phone camera is better now, what causes that?

>>4502773
People don't do shit anymore. 20 years ago the internet was little more than a chatroom and forum conglomerate, so most peoples' spare time was spent actually going the fuck outside and spending time with people. Remember that a camera is just a tool to take photos, and your photos are gonna look boring if you're a boring person.

>>4502702
perkele

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>>4502773
It's the whole reason I made the thread. Because in this period, technology wasn't completely dominating social interactions. As I said above, someone used to have to bring a camera along - it wasn't expected to be a part of a night out. So you occasionally had in-the-moment snapshots of a unique experience, capturing the essence of one persons true personality on display.

Long story short, real unscripted life was recorded during this days. It's not like now, where you have a "public personality" because everywhere you go someone is recording.

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What is the most heart-aching is the thousands of long nights and deep chats with friends about the most random stuff. In a world before podcasts or smartphones always recording, someone may have caught a candid photo like pic related.

Deep in the woods of some random rural area, stopping for a smoke while investing in a conversation, and someone just felt the need to capture that one specific moment. And outside of the image, the memory of those people is all that really exists to tell the story.

>>4502828
You can still get it imo, use an old camera and people will have the same vibe. I knew a girl that bought a Polaroid camera a few years back and all the candids take with that have the same vibes as all these old photos ITT. Having a real camera pointed at you will invoke an entirely different feeling to a phone facing you.

>>4502829
Not really. It's not about the look of the photo, it's about the natural experience. That would be like saying just buy 8mm and dress up like a hippie and you can still live like it's the 1960s.

You can't. This is a era that has passed by. You would be lucky to have friends that prefer to live off the grid and away from social media, who can then capture what you're saying, but it's not as simple as "hey lets buy some old cameras and pose for some photos"

>>4502830
>it's about the natural experience
That's what I meant, you feel more natural when it's not a phone taking the picture. The polaroids from that night weren't posed, it was everyone just goofing around and being normal, I'm not sure out phones even left our pockets on that night since all we had were scans of the polaroids from a few days later.

Even looking back on these photos ITT, a lot of them aren't that special or different from what you'd see now, the only difference is the flash.

>>4502828
>>4502830
>you can NEVER truly capture a photo of someone with their back turned and talking to someone, that era is gone!
idiot

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>>4502827
i just meant with the quality tbdesu
i do think candid photos are less common nowadays, or that nobody really cares to create or seek them out because the idea of taking photos for memories is way more commodified. i don't think that's because of some broad societal shift though, it's just so easy to take selfies or ask someone to take a photo of you and a group somewhere compared to taking a camera everywhere

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>>4502832
My favorite thing about 4chan is how retarded the average person exposes themselves to be. I mean seriously, the entire post is spelled out carefully so that any 70IQ moron can understand...and this faggot thinks it's simply about taking a picture.

>>4502992
His entire post is junk, it's equivalent to "thing, Japan".

>>4502298
>feel like
they dont feel it, they know it.
its real and true.
probably one of the reasons we have brain rot today

>>4501800
red hammer