{"id":660531,"date":"2026-08-31T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660531"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:30:01","slug":"why-gen-z-is-choosing-old-school-cameras-over-smartphones-its-more-than-just-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660531","title":{"rendered":"Why Gen Z is choosing old-school cameras over smartphones: It&#8217;s more than just nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, American summer camps began banning screens. No smartphones, no tablets, nothing with a display. A small company called Camp Snap spotted the gap and built a camera for those kids: a point-and-shoot with the look of a 1990s Kodak, just a viewfinder and a flash, with no way to see a photo until they plugged the camera into a computer. Then something the company had not planned for happened.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/30\/Old-school_camera_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Why Gen Z is choosing old-school cameras over smartphones: It&apos;s more than just nostalgia\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, American summer camps began banning screens. No smartphones, no tablets, nothing with a display. A small company called Camp Snap spotted the gap and built a camera for those kids: a point-and-shoot with the look of a 1990s Kodak, just a viewfinder and a flash, with no way to see&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660531\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Gen Z is choosing old-school cameras over smartphones: It&#8217;s more than just nostalgia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660573,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660531\/revisions\/660573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}