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I’d bet there’s a healthy chunk of “nostalgia for times and technologies past” that is affecting your perception as well. The “default settings” are different,

• hudibras 8y ago
  Back then, someone flipping through your photos would say, "Ah, you used Kodachrome! Looks nice!" but if you had the same look on a printed photo today, they'd instead ask, "Why did you use a filter on this?" I guess my point is that back then, people recognized that using different film and different equipment led to different results, and that the photographer chose their technique in such a way as to make art in the way they wanted. Photography was not simply method to capture a moment in the most realistic way possible, as it often is thought of today.