{"id":30392,"date":"2024-12-30T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30392"},"modified":"2024-12-30T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:22:37","slug":"everything-old-is-new-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/everything-old-is-new-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"everything old is new again …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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comparing a Nikon CoolPix S33 digital camera (left) with an iPhone 13 camera about December 2024 – courtesy of Lily Dupuis<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. This old chestnut seems to apply to early digital cameras now.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[34,105,30],"class_list":["post-30392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras","tag-digital","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30426,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions\/30426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}