My old flip phone from 2008 still takes better photos than my first smartphone

I dug out my LG EnV3 from a drawer last week and those 2 megapixel shots have way more character than the washed out garbage from my old HTC Thunderbolt. The flash was weak and the shutter lag was brutal, but the colors looked natural instead of that fake HDR look. I swear phone cameras peaked around 2012 and then just went downhill with all the processing. Anybody else keep a dumb phone around just for the camera feel?

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eric_wright7727d ago

That overprocessed look is everywhere now, not just phones but even the photos people take with mirrors and filters. Everything feels flattened and smoothed out like nobody wants to see actual texture or shadows anymore. Maybe we traded realism for convenience and the old stuff just had more soul.

noah_palmer4227d ago

Yeah the flattened look drives me crazy. You can barely see the grain or any real depth anymore. Some of those old film shots had such rich shadows and texture that just get erased now.

noah_palmer4227d ago

I disagree @eric_wright77, that old film noise actually bugged me more than today's processing.