The "hipster" label is about 5 years out of date in general, but people...keep...saying...it! Seriously, I lived in Williamsburg Brooklyn, the epicenter of hipsterdom from say 2003-2009. It's over. The fanny packs are gone, the PBRs have been replaced with some pretty fantastic craft beers, and (as it relates to this discussion) impractical analog fashion statements have been replaced with very practical analog alternative choices.
Maybe at one time people bought vinyl records because it was cool, but now they do it because if you're going to own a physical music medium, a record has the best balance of packaging, playback, and displayibility at home. They sound great, they look great, and you probably have Spotify already when you're on-the-go. Throwing away paper plates is easier than washing china, but at Thanksgiving, we don't use disposable plates. Are house-wives hipsters because they put china on their registry?
If you're interested in photography beyond the usual consumer level, why not shoot film? It's easy to get scans, the images look great, the cameras and film are relatively cheap, and they're fun to use. Plus if you don't know a lot about using LR/PS, film already looks more interesting than your average raw file or jpeg. Pro and advanced amatures have their own equally good reasons to do so. I shoot a lot of digital images for work, but I see no reason to do so for my personal work. For straight photography there is nothing interesting about a digital image beyond it's efficiency.
So while there was a time when a small group of young people were using film cameras as part of a larger statement about fashion and culture, this has largely gone away. Digital is mature, film is beyond mature. It's no more 'odd' to choose a Rolleiflex than it is to enjoy horseback riding or oil painting. So yeah, Ektachrome is coming back! I predict someday there may even be an FM4, or F7.
For me, I just want the Rollei FX-N back in production.
