10 pointsby megamike21 hours ago3 comments
  • ggm20 hours ago
    The Fuji Half-frame digital. It's in the space of the Olympus Trip-35, emulating a half-frame effect, so you get 72 shots on a 36 reel. Obviously this is synthetically overlaid on the digital reality but it has some very fundamental qualities aligned closely to fixed focus fixed lens camera experience and Fuji's digital film emulation (about 6 different types) is very good. They even have "out of date" options to get the nasty red blurry blob effect we used to suffer on film kept in the car glovebox.

    Not cheap mind you. https://fujifilm-houseofphotography.com.au/pages/fujifilm-x-...

    A critique says they should have put more resistance into the lever, made the "wind on" experience better.

  • ColdStream21 hours ago
    I do like the idea of focused intentional hardware. Yes, it doesn't have the convenience of smart phones but it doesn't mean you have to give them up just to have a digital camera. Both have their place.

    I also really like the image quality on a lot of dedicated digital cams, I suspect it is because they don't have to have the sensor and lens crushed into a 9mm thick device. That can do a lot more for image quality.

    • cellular20 hours ago
      I think picture quality on my droidX is better than the smoothed out filtering on current cameras since 2018 or so.

      The old ones did compression but nothing like this awful mess current cameras do.

      I looked at pictures from droidX era and was amazed how clear zoomed-in faces were.

      Now those older cams needed better light but that is a different issue.

      • cellular20 hours ago
        The older pics were smaller in MBs too!
  • joezydeco20 hours ago
    And in another thread we're trying to figure out why GoPro is dying. Amazing.