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Speaker 1: Here's a blast from the past. Remember those crappy film

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Speaker 1: and digital cameras we used to use before the iPhones

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Speaker 1: came in. It turns out the gen Z as the

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Speaker 1: kids nowadays tripping over themselves to get their hands on

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Speaker 1: one of these things. Nick Koe is the manager for

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Speaker 1: Auckland Camera Center in Morningside and with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Nick, good evening, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Are you selling a lot of these little digital cameras

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Speaker 1: to the kids?

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Speaker 2: We are? We've seen a huge increase over the last

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Speaker 2: few years of these cameras. We've been selling them used

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Speaker 2: and just whatever we can get our hands on. We

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Speaker 2: just can't keep them in stuff right.

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Speaker 1: Kids want so many of them, you're running out.

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Speaker 2: Yes, there certain models we are, but the sort of

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Speaker 2: uptake and demand for them has been huge.

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Speaker 1: Why do they love them so much?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a little bit of a split.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of the younger kids, the gen

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Speaker 2: Z people, are wanting to kind of have a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a disconnect from their sort of digital life style.

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Speaker 2: But also fashion goes in circles, so I think this

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Speaker 2: is a little bit of a trendy thing as well.

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Speaker 3: Look, Nick, I can't be bothered with the fat can you,

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Speaker 3: Because you've got to take the photo, then you've got

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Speaker 3: to get the little memory card out, and then you've

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Speaker 3: got to download it on the computer, and then you've

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Speaker 3: got to upload it to your Instagram.

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Speaker 1: That just feels far too hard, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: It can be, but it's not as hard as you

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Speaker 2: would think. And the sort of the vibes that you

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Speaker 2: get from the older cameras, I think it's hard to

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Speaker 2: get that from an iPhone. The iPhone photos and digital

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Speaker 2: photos that you get out of your phone do look

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Speaker 2: really really quite perfect and quite honed. And there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of AI and things in the cameras now in

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Speaker 2: phones too, So these older cameras they give you a soft,

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Speaker 2: kind of led out look that they're really keen to

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Speaker 2: kind of chase and invest the extra time to get.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if anybody's got their hands on a digital camera,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I've got I've got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: them lying at the bottom of the electronics box. Are

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Speaker 1: they worth anything if I dig them out?

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Speaker 2: Well, they couldn't be. You need to check it thoroughly

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Speaker 2: to make sure it's working properly and that the battery

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Speaker 2: charge is okay. But most digital cans. You can get

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Speaker 2: spare batteries and things, but sure, you never know, maybe

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Speaker 2: you might find somebody who might want to use one,

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Speaker 2: or you can resell it or gift it.

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Speaker 1: Gift it as if I'm going to make every dollar

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Speaker 1: I can off it. Thank you, Nick, Nick coey Auckland,

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Speaker 1: camera Senter Manage it.

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