Replicating vintage photography

What if he was using a camera from 1978?
Would you still be able to tell it is the early 90's?

The answer is no, because you never could in the first place.

>Step 1
Find 90s looking things

>Step 2
Expose for highlights and use >800 ISO

>Step 3
Use 35-50mm equivalent and frame main subject in the center to see what's going on around the subject.

>Step 4
Very low contrast or very high contrast and dial back saturation a bit and vibrance, too, or just do black and white with low/high contrast

Always expose for highlights, though. More can be retrieved from shadows than blown-out highlights.

>Something about the colors or the slight bloom in this photo just tells you that this was the early 90's.

No, it doesn't.

There isn't an obscene amount of 90's fashion either, so it's hard to pinpoint the era. I could honestly think this photo was taken in the early-mid2000's if you didn't claim it to be from the 90's. Only thing that makes it look like it was from a different time it's that it's shot with film.