Now they’re experiencing a revival of sorts among many people who claim that the blurry, unfocused quality of the images taken with them have a certain aesthetic charm. In fact, it’s so easy to take a high quality picture on your phone nowadays that many young people don’t even own separate digital cameras.ĭespite the unquestionable popularity of smartphones, there seems to be a recent trend among young Japanese people to use single-use, disposable film cameras. One of the most popular of these models is called Utsurun Desu (写ルンです), which was first produced by FujiFilm in 1986 (it’s known as QuickSnap overseas).Īlthough the production of disposable cameras in general has declined in recent years, a few models such as Utsurun Desu can still be purchased in stores in Japan. Some of our younger readers may not even be able to remember that far back (gasp!), or even to a time before everyone, their mom, and their pet dogs had cell phones, let alone smartphones. Here’s an easy way to make you feel old: Remember a time when film cameras were the norm? a disposable camera-the latest photo trend in Japan-to take pictures.

For more information see man investigates the artistic effects of using an iPhone vs. This video is part of the Global Lives Project, a video library of life experience. This video was produced by Irene Herrera, Ron Carr, Andreina Lairet, Nobuhiro Awata, Helio Ishii, Claudianna Blanco, Kiyomi Nakai, Wakako Iguchi, Mariko Nagaba, Chieko Kato, Erika Aragon, Simone Goldsmith, Mike Olsen, Jon Jameson, Sakura Ono, Samson Yee, Tiffany Wang, Yumi Garcia, and Dos Santos. She has served as a Girl Scout mentor and has also lobbied towards the development of barrier-free cities that increase accessibility for the physically challenged. Although Rumi can walk, she still uses a wheelchair to travel long distances.

Due to an accident in 2005, she lost the use of her right leg. At the time of the Global Lives Project shoot, she was about to graduate from Atomi University with a degree in Management Studies, and had a job lined-up with Fujitsu as a systems engineer. Rumi Nagashima was born in 1984 in Higashi-Koganei, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. She was 22 years old at the time of the shoot. This is part of a 24-hour recording of a day in the life of Rumi Nagashima, a college student and girl scout troop leader from Tokyo, Japan.

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