You've probably seen them popping up again. Someone at a party pulls out a chunky little digital camera, fires a blinding flash, and passes it around so everyone can see the grainy photo on the tiny screen. The early-2000s digicam look is suddenly cool again.
Digital cameras first took off in the 1990s and became everywhere in the early 2000s as they got smaller, cheaper, and easier to use. Their appeal was simple: instant photos without waiting for film to develop. By the late 2000s, though, smartphones with increasingly good cameras pushed the once-ubiquitous point-and-shoot into the background.
Down a narrow alley off Shaanxi South Road, SISYPHUS is a tiny shop devoted to those early digicams. The walls are lined with hundreds of CCD compacts, the chunky point-and-shoots now back in fashion for their grainy, slightly washed-out look.
Most of the gear is second-hand: Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Casio, Nikon, Olympus. Expect plenty of Canon IXUS models, along with A-series compacts and long-zoom SX cameras. Instant cameras, film cameras, and even the occasional DV camcorder are mixed into the shelves.
There is a small testing area if you want to try things out, plus batteries, chargers, memory cards, and camera bags. Inventory changes frequently as new second-hand cameras come in, so the selection shifts week to week.
Images 小红书: 西西弗斯相机商店
