Stoked to hear that you’re trying some stuff out & enjoying it so far. I think Digicam’s coming back into (relative) popularity is super funny, as a kid I always enjoyed a point-and-shoot over those (at least, up until the point you could no longer get film developed at the supermarket.)[Side story, my mother used to be pissed when she would send me off to summer camp with one, we’d get the photos developed and there was just a bunch of photos of flora. Go figure I love landscape photography nowadays.] Can’t deny the choke hold it had on scene & early social media culture though. Instagram really sort of killed that stuff off and ushered in the rise of phone photography. If you end up craving a focus or desire to share, flickr is still kicking around, as well as I imagine some of the more photography leaning threads around here would appreciate them too. Or, you can take the advice in this video and keep it to yourself.
Phone camera’s are something I’m totally good living with, super solid image quality for the size, it’s always on hand, file management is a breeze, and generally the UI isn’t too cluttered or distracting. But I also have a dedicated full body camera, which fulfills that desire to have a dedicated, peeled back device to help focus in and be more intentional with.
Regardless, that’s all to say that it’s awesome that you’ve found some joy in these more dedicated devices, and that it’s brought about a positive impact on your life thus far.
Really good outlook on it. When I first sort of kicked off all of these changes I’ve been making, I was reading a rather popular book called Atomic Habits, which I think did a really good job of addressing “cheat days” or lapses in habits. The quote is roughly along the lines of missing doing the habit once is an accident, but missing it twice is the start of a new, likely negative habit. I think it’s great to give yourself some leeway, but equally important to be aware of how & why a new habit may be forming.
Similarly, I’ve also found replacing scrolling with reading has been incredibly successful— as long as I also maintain the habit of packing a lunch. But that’s probably more of a subjective situation rather then objective.