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 cameras NASA sent to space cost as much as a car. The lenses were very expensive and they used film with very low grain that was also very expensive.
When movies are made they also use incredibly expensive cameras and lenses that are often rented due to the incredibly high cost.
In the late 90s and 2000s photography had become less exotic. Large companies like Kodak started producing decent quality film for very low cost and processing costs dropped because it was mostly automated.
Also in the 90s plastic became much easier to work with and disposable plastic cameras became the norm. The lens was made of plastic and didn’t focus or adjust at all it produced less clear images but they were relatively cheap.
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