
comparing a Nikon CoolPix S33 digital camera (left) with an iPhone 13 camera about December 2024 – courtesy of Lily Dupuis
Toronto. This old chestnut seems to apply to early digital cameras now.
Past president Les Jones dropped me a note the other day (followed by current president Clint Hryhorijiw with same link) about an article he read on the CBC web site regarding the discovery of old digital cameras by the Gen Z crowd. The ambiance of photos taken are softer and the shutter speeds slower than those snapped by modern smartphones.
After finally coming to grips with film cameras being old, now we must contend with early digitals! It should be noted that some members began collecting the old digital cameras a few years back. Now there are people using them (like the film brigade) to create photos that are a bit closer to art than fact.
Have at look at the article posted Christmas day from Calgary and written by Lily Dupuis. My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix which I followed by a couple of newer ones before moving to Sony mirrorless cameras and Apple iPods. My current go to is an old iPod with an 8 mx camera on board.
I do have a Samsung smartphone with a fancier and higher resolution camera, but it’s a royal pain to transfer image files to my computer using Android technology which seems to have been designed by dumb and dumber (spoiler alert – I prefer Apple and wireless for transferring files).