If you are over the age of 40, you may remember buying a camera. You may also remember the fiddly process of loading and unloading a film, and the seemingly interminable wait to get your pictures developed, followed by the realisation that you had missed the shot.
To most young people, who have only ever known digital snaps on their smartphones, such practices must seem quaint. Yet film photography is experiencing a revival — and most of the demand is coming from millennials and Gen Zers who are growing increasingly intrigued by traditional cameras.
Demand is growing to such an extent that Ricoh is launching its first new film camera in two decades, under the Pentax brand. Most Japanese camera-makers stopped producing analogue film models