Why Gen Z Is Buying Decade-Old Digicams (And What It Means)

Gen Z isn't buying old Coolpix cameras because they're good — they're buying them because they're not phones, and that distinction is now the point. The same counterculture impulse that's driving the film revival is at work here, and it's a useful reminder that 'image quality' has never been the whole story of why people pick up a camera.