Cell phone photo. You know, at this scale it looks pretty great, but if you zoom in you can see all the details look like they've been put through a filter that removes all the noise and smudges and infills the colours and the details. It looks like a painting.
Those great cell phone pictures we're all raving about? They look like crap.
Really, on your phone screen or in an email maybe they look alright, but up close.... not so much.
Garbage.
There's a fear I have that this "good enough" photography will undermine the availability of decent cameras moving forward. For the last two decades, cameras have been thoroughly digital, and technology dies. What happens to photography when all the pixels turn to... dust. Pixel dust? Pixie dust?
We're not there yet. It feels like it's coming.
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