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[another crosspost from twitter 6 hours late, took this one a bit earlier and it was a reply to one of my mutuals while discussing my modern potato phone with a 2000's-ass camera]

its gettin dark enough that theres super obvious grain this is peak

the cranes look less exciting during the day with this camera. wish i could convey what a wonderful shade of red they have, it's a treat

honestly too tempted to get some camera with a real zoom lens just to take photos of these cranes

there's a multi-floor electronics store with windows right onto alexanderplatz selling both “system cameras” (ones with interchangeable lenses) and uhh whatever sony cybershots are called. i tried one with 8x optical zoom. it was So Tempting but i am not dropping €1k on this

@hikari in the pre-smartphone era, i had a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ6, a point-and-shoot with a 12X optical zoom, and it was incredible

i took these photos over 14 years ago from the same spot!

@Ninji oh it's interesting how i can kinda tell the photo is old from the colours but it's more detailed than i would expect

@hikari this reminds us that it's just so disappointing that we never got a "good" light field camera due to lack of commercial interest ("good" meaning "tighter integration with the image sensor fab process s.t. the inherent tradeoffs become more worth it")

even Prof. Ren Ng seemed(?) to regret this

@hikari ADHD thought prompted by the realization that the entire standalone camera market is kinda floundering