But I also noticed, somewhat to my dismay, that stores display Brownies. I tried in vain to buy it. But if Brownies were decoration, they weren't collectible. And they weren't a collectible either, if you use them. So I did.
Film is still available.
And my seven year old daughter did. I handed one to my daughter. She can take pictures with it. Its shutter makes the two syllable noise of click and recoil, snap shot, a century old and already an oldfashioned word like victrola or phonograph. The square, straightforward snap shot they produce seems more honest to me that 35mm.