Canon PowerShot A460 (a diary entry from 2016) by maansi jain Canon PowerShot A460 (a diary entry from 2016) is a series shot on a snapshot camera. Though the camera only has a pitiful 5-megapixels and a max ISO of 400, it was still a relevant consumer product at its inception in 2007, even hailed as a below average. It was marketed as a camera that would allow the user to “capture moments that count” not a far cry from catchier analog born: Kodak moment. In the mid 00s, we were a long way away from the ubiquity of the camera phone as snapshot camera. For reference: in the same year the Apple iPhone had a 2.0 megapixel camera. Still, despite these unimpressive technical specifications, digital cameras had cornered the previously film market. The casual consumer was not concerned with image quality; rather, they were interested in ease of use. As technological obsolescence would have it, in 2016, I stumbled upon the PowerShot A460 for 6 Canadian dollars, at a secondhand shop (a steal from the original 150 USD price tag.) I knew instantly what I would shoot on this monstrosity: an ode to digital nostalgia in snapshot form. I treated my Canon like college kids treat disposable 35 mm cameras, like a diary; except it has a 32- gigabyte memory card and I can keep shooting endlessly. I wanted to fetishize the digital as we do film; to create images from the future, that should have been from previous years; that no longer look quite right to our eyes, which see thousands of high res images on a regular basis. Surely, a digital camera could inspire the same kind of nostalgia that an analog camera can. To keep the analog vibe while adding a typically digital effect—a “filter” and to mimic some of the accidents of film, I manually held a crystal in front of the camera as I shot images. Then, I used a Lightroom workflow to edit the final images. The result is this series of images.