When was the last time you used a disposable camera?

[Smashingdoozy]

My friends and I decided to get one for a festival, the pictures are just 🤌 I love the way they look!

[MrOracle]

Ugh. Those pictures are AWFUL. You can tell it was a plastic lens, and a very small one at that. The colors are terrible and it was clearly 100 speed film.

I guess I understand that you're attracted to the fact that it looks DIFFERENT, but what's different is that it's LOUSY quality. It's what many of us used to have to live with back in the day - I have boxes of pictures that look like this - but we can do so much better today.

Hell, we could do a lot better in the 90s. I eventually bought a nearly fully-automatic 35mm with a high-quality glass lens that was only about $150. It was still a point-and-shoot, no zoom or anything, but quality-wise, it was miles above this. If used within its limitations, it was actually impressive - but it was definitely limited to snapshots.

[adam6402]

You've missed the point. People love how these photos look BECAUSE they look like crap. It gives it a nostalgic antique look that you can't get with modern cameras. You can get filters and effects for modern cameras but for some people, nothing beats a raw original crap quality photo.

[MrOracle]

@adam6402 No, I get it. I just don't agree with it. I didn't like how crappy those pictures were even back in the day (I lived through that time!), and I don't like it now.

[adam6402]

Fair enough. I'm young so these photos weren't really a big part of my life, but I still remember my first disposable camera, and seeing these photos again is nostalgic and makes me appreciate what we have today more.

[NYCQuestions1976]

It's been a little while. One of my friends had disposable cameras on every table at her wedding reception. A big mistake. One of a few that evening. First, she put us at Table 6, and there was a little sign stand on each table with the corresponding numbers. So of course as soon as we noticed this, we immediately went over to Table 9 (luckily for us, filled with boring people) and asked them for their number sign. We were Table 69 the rest of the night. As for the disposable camera? Crazy poses, moonings, and crotch pictures. I should add that we weren't in our 20s when this happened. This was only about 5 years ago. 😂😂

[NYCQuestions1976]

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[douride2]

PI don't recall. Most likely I was a small child last time I used a disposable camera.

[naartjie]

Those are what I use when going away or to events. They’re just perfect

[yepdonethat]

OMG. I remember when they first came out. All the rage. Quickly replaced by those tiny digi camcorders, which were then replaced by phones. Last time I had a disposable? Maybe like 1993, I think. But the real question is did you ever use a Polaroid Instant? Used those like a mad man in the 80s and then up until like 1991.

[Smashingdoozy]

I have the first rereleased Polaroid camera. When I got it I was so poor I hoarded the 100 pack I got to the point I didn't even use them all to this day, I think the last pack is in it and I haven't touched it

[yepdonethat]

Hang on to it and then sell it to a museum for an extreme price when you are 80.

[RebelinSteel]

A couple years back, some friends and me went to lakes and also to Scotland, we had 2 of them, took loads of pics. Then the lad who was tasked with getting them developed had his car broken into and the bag they were in taken. We like to think someone swiped them, got them developed and wondered what a group of guys were doing swimming in rivers n lochs lol. We know we had a lot of fireside drinking shots and other random stuff, lol feeling nostalgic thinking about it.

[RebelinSteel]

Oh n your pics look great, spontaneous.

[adam6402]

I've still got mine from last Christmas break. I haven't had the photos developed yet but there's a bunch of goodies on there. I got one before the start of the 2 week holidays and limited myself to only taking 2 photos per day, trying to capture the best moments each time. Can't wait to see the results!

[Wiredone]

I haven't used a disposable camera since I was a teenager. I didn't know they still sell them these days

[Smashingdoozy]

They do! Though a lot more expensive to get them developed than when I was a kid

[Wiredone]

It must be difficult to find someone to develop the pictures

[Smashingdoozy]

No not super difficult, the local drugstore does it

[NathanDavis]

at a friend's wedding, shortly before the pandemia

[CubaPirate]

Probably on a helicopter flight over New York 6 months after 9 11. Buying a disposable camera from the ground crew was the only way you could take any photos due to the heightened security at that time

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Last December, disposable cameras were provided on the tables in the reception of the last wedding we attended.

[Sharkstealth]

I think it was taking pictures of stingrays on Grand Cayman. 2012

[msc545]

I think the last time I used one was probably when I was about 8 years old. I also don't remember ever seeing any prints as a result of that effort.

[nawtee_me]

It looks like you all had a good time there. I like the look of the pics too. They are almost 60ish or 70ish…

[petitedollbabee]

Oh jeez.. like 12-13 years ago at school camp, lol.

[AydenHazor]

You look great!

The last time I used a disposable camera was at a wedding about 5 years ago, the bride and groom bought disposable camera and left one on each table for us to fill up for them

[Still-alive]

Wow you look like you're in the 90s lol.

umm probably in the 2000s sometime.

[exitseven]

I was at my cousin;r wedding about 20 years ago. My kids were little and we took a whole roll of the kids goofing around.

[Kaneki05]

Never. Phone's exist so never used such ancient tech lol.

[jjj101010]

I went to a wedding a couple of years ago and they had been out on the tables for guests to take pictures of the day

[Bklynbadboy12]

I'm so jealous y'all look like you and your friends had soooooo much fun

[Anonymous]

well i got one for New Years, but haven't found anything worth taking pics of yet

[jamesgoldman]

I'd guess about 15 years ago

[love_conquers_lust]

It was for underwater picutres