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lcamtuf's avatar

Perhaps of note: there's a bit of a "vintage digital camera" fashion trend among teenagers. Just like the "VHS aesthetic", I think it's cute, but there's also a lot of pseudoscientific babble outlining the supposed advantages of CCD over CMOS - including the claim that they deliver a more "film-like" look.

In reality, CCD and CMOS use the same physical principle for light measurement. CCD is simpler to make, but has a much wonkier readout process. Any visual differences are almost certainly due to software postprocessing - tone mapping, noise reduction, etc.

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Iustin Pop's avatar

To be fair, your article also shows a very different picture: one fully sees the difference on a 4K monitor, but on the phone, I actually had to squint to see the differences in the well-lighted pictures. So, even today, the Mavica is ~OK for social media!

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