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12--year-old Jacob Sherd, interested in all things vintage, has collected about 9 film cameras in the past year. He's also the youngest member at PhotoAccess, a non-profit teaching people how to shoot and develop film photos, in Canberra.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 The reason I'm obsessed with it is it always just
00:06 clicked with me when I was--
00:09 with my aesthetic, with retro, like, vinyls, cameras,
00:13 all of that.
00:14 Polaroid.
00:15 This was my grandpa's.
00:17 A gift I got from one of the workers at Photo Access.
00:23 It was really kind.
00:25 1950s.
00:26 It's very simple.
00:28 And the film isn't made anymore, but you
00:31 can have workarounds on it.
00:33 You look through here about waist level,
00:36 and then you would just--
00:37 [CLICK]
00:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:41 It could be like a response to kind of digital fatigue,
00:47 where people are kind of just used to seeing things
00:50 on the screen every day.
00:52 And when they discover film, whether it's
00:54 for the first time or if they're discovering it again,
00:57 they fall in love with the tactile nature of it.
00:59 It's something you can touch, and you can smell.
01:01 And yeah, it just offers a very different experience
01:06 to the way you have a relationship
01:08 to the images you make.
01:09 Photos, like, properly printed that you can hold and share
01:13 to people just has something different than just
01:17 a digital file on your phone.
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