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Was dabei auch aufgefallen ist… die 2000er und frühen 2010er waren eine ganz, ganz furchtbare Zeit für die #Fotografie.

70er, 80er? Da hat man analog #Fotos gemacht. Film war teuer, Kameras auch. Der Vorgang brauchte seine Zeit - weil alles mechanisch.

Klar sind da nicht alle Bilder toll - die Technik war ja aus heutiger Sicht Schrott - aber im Schnitt sind deutlich mehr der überlieferten Bilder brauchbar als heute.

90er? Billige-Plastik-Knippsen sind überall. Noch immer Film, noch immer teuer pro Bild, aber mehr Leute machen mehr Fotos und keiner denkt über Beleuchtung oder Brennweite nach. Uff!

Und dann kommt die große Schwemme der schlechten Digitalkameras. Alles rauscht, alles wackelt, alles hat 20x Zoom aber keinerlei optische Qualität. Sensorgröße? Warum sollte man darüber nachdenken, wenn man lieber über #Megapixel reden kann?

Und dann wurde es noch schlimmer…

Plötzlich hat jedes Telefon eine #Kamera eingebaut! Und keine macht jemals erträgliche Fotos! Nicht mal in hellstem Tageslich, ohne Zoom!

Erst ab gegen 2015 wird es wieder merklich besser.

The very first test prints of three parts of my #NeXT #MegaPixel display. And oh boy… the middle part (that one with the ribs) is a nightmare for #FDM printing! Horrible post processing getting rid of the support material! This is wh. y I'm thinking of buying a resin printer. The customers will appreciate it too. Because the parts will have WAY BETTER surface quality!

How people did #pictures years ago:
Seek and fiddle with their #camera to get the best quality (many megapixel!) and export these to a PC.

The state of the art of how people nowadays do pictures:
Use their superpowered quad core mini computers which include multiple super-high resolution #megapixel cameras to shoot a photo and then send it via #WhatsApp in a super downsized solution to anybody involved.

Fellow friends of #RetroComputing: I need some thoughts. How should I design the monitor housing of the #NeXT #MegaPixel Display for my #NeXTcube mini? Should I keep the aspect ratio of the original monitor, having this thick chin (left side)? Or should I follow the form factor of the used IPS display with an unique bevel on all sides (right side)?

What do you mean?

Please share as much as you can. Thanks. 🙏🏼

#3DPrinting #3DPrint #3dDruck #3DDesign #BambuLab #Shapr3D #RetroReBuild

// @helge

Holy crap! I completely forgot that I saved this amazing Kodak DC120, back in 2016, when it was going to get thrown out in an old-gear purge at the institution where we stay in Amman before going out into the field!

At the time I thought it was neat, but I didn’t have a cf card reader. So apparently I just turned it on, took a few test photos and then put it at the back of my storage shelf!

But it’s totally ready for the #ShittyCameraChallenge and even #1990sCameraChallenge