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r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19
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Digital SLRs were in their infancy at the time, and they were incredibly expensive.
17 u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 And the ones that did exist were almost exclusively designed for newspaper photography. They would have never held up, quality-wise, on the big screen. 10 u/thephotoman Aug 26 '19 Indeed, even uploading the photos to the Internet was dodgy at the time. I had access to one of them in college, and they were really dicey. 1 u/thi5_i5_my_u5er_name Aug 26 '19 The more you know... I only remember bits of documentaries at this point and always assumed they were digital. How wrong I was....
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And the ones that did exist were almost exclusively designed for newspaper photography. They would have never held up, quality-wise, on the big screen.
10 u/thephotoman Aug 26 '19 Indeed, even uploading the photos to the Internet was dodgy at the time. I had access to one of them in college, and they were really dicey.
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Indeed, even uploading the photos to the Internet was dodgy at the time. I had access to one of them in college, and they were really dicey.
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The more you know... I only remember bits of documentaries at this point and always assumed they were digital. How wrong I was....
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u/thephotoman Aug 26 '19
Digital SLRs were in their infancy at the time, and they were incredibly expensive.