In a story coming out of a picnic in Brooklyn, NY, your indie friend just made everyone pose for 15 minutes because she insists on only using her camera obscura to take pictures.
“I always appreciate a vintage photo,” you told reporters. “But I assumed she’d be using something like a digital camera or a 35 millimeter film camera, not her forcing us to stand in the same place for upwards of 15 minutes while the sun filtered through a small pinhole and imprinted our image onto a piece of paper. It doesn’t even look that good.”
While not the most utilized form of photography these days — with many describing it as “outdated” and “archaic” –– your friend still insists that it’s the best.
“You just don’t get results like this using a modern camera,” your friend said while holding up a faded, blurry photo of your friend group. “This really captures the true essence of the hang.”
Although they were annoyed with your friend, the rest of your friend group had to agree that it did, in fact, capture the essence of the hang –– seeing that the hang was stressful, tense, and forgettable.
“The blurriness did capture the intense restlessness that permeated the entire hang,” you told reporters. “And it did also capture the inherent impermanence of our earthly existence…Maybe the camera obscura actually is the way to go!”
In the weeks following this statement, the camera obscura had gained popularity in the indie scene in Brooklyn, with people forgoing their iPhone cameras for digital cameras, their digital cameras for film cameras, and, ultimately, their film cameras for the camera obscura.
As of press time, an iPhone hadn’t been used to take a single photo in Brooklyn in seven whole days. However, your indie friend was considering bringing the iPhone back, claiming camera obscuras had gotten “too mainstream.”
