When I come upon old pictures of historic moments, like Buzz Aldrin’s space selfie, they look so clear and high quality. But I can’t say the same about things I come across from like the late 90s and 2000s.
Honestly, that selfie, if I hadn’t known from the caption/history, I would have assumed it was more recent or from a movie lol.
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The 90s is when we started moving from photographic film to digital photography. Photographic film used a gel with photoreactive chemicals which means the image is recorded down to the molecular level.
Digital sensors, by contrast, are limited by the number of light sensors in the camera. Light sensors can be made very small but not as small as a silver hallide crystal. The end result is that late stage photographic film had much better resolution than the digital photos of the 90s.
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