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analog camera nerdery
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As someone who technically has multiple i don't think expensive analog point-and-shoots are a good investment in 2026, mostly for two reasons
- they tend to be fragile and often seem to cling on life out of sheer luck, how they made it this far is anyone's best guess
- they often barely communicate what they are doing, and you don't have that much control on it.
now this applies to the cheaper point-and-shoots too; but it's a cheap laugh and if it breaks then so be it. but as you go up the foodchain that's a lot of responsibility you are putting on a cheaply build motorised piece of plastic from the 1990's.

What i'd recommend instead is the "dslr-without-the-d". Get one in the brand you already have lenses for, so a nikon or a canon or a pentax it does not matter a lot. They are transparant about their settings, have good auto settings, communicate what they are doing, you can see through the lens and if it breaks there are trillions of those on the e- of bay. And they are cheap, especially for the feature set.

You loose a bit of convenience (some of them are quite big) but i think they have a lot of value to them otherwise, and as you start experimenting you're not going to be quite as limited.

Anyways those are my two cents. i will still continue shooting my z70 with it's 28mm lens just like i'll continue shooting my ricoh r1, i just think one of them would be replaced if it breaks and it ain't the ricoh.
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re: analog camera nerdery
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litterally today someone recommended me this video which is exactly my point. most underrated camera category smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Y4vOSuSGg
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