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Old photos can look amazing because they used really large film. What is considered a full frame sensor now was the cellphone camera of its time.
by skhr0680 5y ago
Old photos can look amazing because they used really large film. What is considered a full frame sensor now was the cellphone camera of its time.
- formerly_proven 5y agoIndeed, this is why Leica, the inventors of using 35 mm film for stills, called it Kleinbild - “small image”. At the time people doubted you could make optics good enough for this to work out, but Zeiss (inventors of modern optical engineering) and Leitz proved those naysayers wrong.
- lm28469 5y agoYep, my 1943 photography book calls 35mm "miniature format"