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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Retro cameras are trending. But the blurry, grainy, and harsh flash look of retro photographs is coming back, too

A film camera with half-eaten wedding cake, a tie, and a bride's shoe.

Blurry photos. Wild colors. Grainy images. The harshness of direct flash. Digital cameras have been slowly evolving to correct some of the most common mistakes in photography, fixing blur with stabilization, lowering grain with better processors and larger sensors, and delivering more accurate colors in camera.

But then, retro cameras surged in trends. And the “terrible” images of the past seem to have risen right along with them.

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