Was going through old photos. Here's a reminder of what camera phone quality was like in 2005
Posted by bikemandan@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 35 comments
BabyBandit616@reddit
I have old camera phones. How did y’all get your pictures off? I’d have to email them to myself.
867-53-oh-nein@reddit
My eyes have caught up to this quality now.
M5M400@reddit
just hold your phone a full arms length away from your eyes
LastCallKillIt@reddit
This shit is actually trendy now. They are making cameras deliberately now that take these kinds of pictures.
OkBaconBurger@reddit
M R Ducks
nudave@reddit
C D E D B D ducks?
OkBaconBurger@reddit
C M E D B D beaks?
nudave@reddit
O S I C
OkBaconBurger@reddit
M R ducks.
beeurd@reddit
I took a selfie with my Razr V3 sometime in 2005. 🫠
no1kn0wsm3@reddit
I remembered how much of a novelty camera phones were when I got my 1st one, the 2003 Nokia 7250. That year I got my first dSLR, the 2003 Canon EOS 10D + 2003 Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens. The image quality difference were striking that I still preferred a separate device.
Prior to that had a 2002 Canon PowerShot A40 & 1996 Kodak DC20.
Zeke688@reddit
Are you Eli Manning? I can’t tell because it’s so blurry
DarinCN@reddit
Phillip Rivers coming out of retirement- woot!
FreeTicket6143@reddit
I remember seeing the graphics for N64 and the first Playstation and thinking “wow, so real. This is the future”
Global-Jury8810@reddit
Goldeneye seemed so state of the art.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
You mean like the razr gave you a thumbnail of a pic? I remember.
DarinCN@reddit
Say click! Take a pic!
Legal_Talk_3847@reddit
gengarcuddles@reddit
I took some photos to test out my Blackberry Curve 8900 around 2007 and those images are so unusably bad. Let alone the rest videos! It’s wild how quickly phone camera sensors improved and where we are today. Don’t miss the EDGE only connection or microscopic screen but that tiny keyboard was a delight.
NotRadTrad05@reddit
Are those ducks or decoys? Between the phone and my eyes I honestly can't tell. This is coming from someone who in college crawled a couple hundred yards to swat some ducks only to pop up on a spread left on a stock tank.
Atillion@reddit
Looks like your screen's quacked..
PizzaWhole9323@reddit
Wait until he gets the bill. ;-)
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I went to Ireland in 2001 so i bought a memory card for my digital camera. I splurged and bought the $70 one. It was 64MB. MEGABYTES. I took hundreds of photo and had room to spare on that card.
fakeaccount572@reddit
And here is 2003.
thevmcampos@reddit
(I write this as the moderator of r/vintagedigitalcameras 📸📸)
16yearswasted@reddit
A great way to compare phone quality is to go to Google Street View. Pick a major city that would have had regular updates, go to a street level view, then click to see previous images. Some of them go all the way back to the earliest photos and wow, they are so bad.
The #1 most critical factor in taking a good photo is light. Those early sensors could sometimes do a great job if they had a ton of light to work with.
PotentialPlum4945@reddit
Nice duck pic.
bikemandan@reddit (OP)
Unsolocited
CombatDeffective@reddit
I love that look, though. Its a nice, vintage, found film quality to it.
Polymox@reddit
It still looks like that at max digital zoom.
Spartan04@reddit
Back then the phone camera was a last resort. Even early smartphone cameras weren’t much better. I had a pocket sized Canon digital camera that I would take with me if I thought I’d want it to avoid using the phone camera.
quickblur@reddit
Film camera or cellphone?
bikemandan@reddit (OP)
I remember potato quality...but damn
bikemandan@reddit (OP)
Another