The appeal of analogue: Tips on buying an old-school camera

With analogue cameras your speed of taking photos is greatly slowed down. Because of the film the number of pictures is limited, so you don't just snap away like you would with a phone. — Andrea Warnecke/dpa

Taking a photo on a smartphone has somewhat lost its meaning. Every day, we snap shots that are posted online and backed up into the cloud, often to be forgotten. Time to dig out an old analogue camera to remember what it once meant to take a photograph.

The mechanical nature of the camera, each photo one of a prized few from a limited film, and then the wait until the photos are developed: Even in these days of easy digital photography, there's still something fascinating about old-school film cameras.