Just realized my old Nokia 3310 takes better photos than I thought

I dug out my 3310 last weekend to show my nephew what a real phone feels like, and we ended up snapping some pictures around the yard. The grainy 0.3 megapixel shots actually caught the mood of a rainy afternoon way better than my iPhone's polished HDR stuff. Has anyone else noticed old phone cameras have a weird charm that modern ones just can't match?

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beth2761mo ago

Turn the flash off, it actually helps with old sensor stuff.

riverh491mo ago

Flash only matters for lighting, not how the sensor reads the card.

pat7811mo ago

Old sensors with CCDs really do act weird with flash. Had an old Sony Mavica that would just give you washed out nothing if the flash fired, even in broad daylight. Turning it off forced the thing to actually use the slower readout and gave you images that looked almost like film. It's a whole different world compared to modern sensors, you kind of have to learn each camera's quirks.