quickly comparing photos by a digital camera from 2004 and a smartphone from 2022

Clickbait title: does OLD DIGITAL CAMERA beat SAMSUNG SMART PHONE!? 

I got around to getting the CR-V3 batteries I mentioned before and they really did make the camera work properly. No longer having to shake it just to hope that the batteries manage to keep proper contact to the case, assuming they haven't been drained already. 

I decided to take some shots with it and my phone to see in what ways they meaningfully differ. Which, as it turns out, is many. 

(Digital camera to the left, phone camera to the right)

(im not fixing the weird alignment issue)

The most apparent difference are the colors. The digital camera has a much warmer tone, which I appreciate, as it makes the images feel lively. The shadows are also a lot darker and more prominent, definitely more than they are in real life. The phone camera is a much colder and has brighter shadows, if any at all. I would say that in terms of creating a moody scene the digital camera wins on this. 

Another obvious difference is how detailed the pictures became. The phone shows things like wrinkles, material texture and just generally making things more obvious about what they are. The camera is generally blurry. Not enough to make it hard to tell what things are made of, but definitely not as clear as the phone, even in brighter settings. 

It may be due to habit, but for me it's also easier to control a phone than a camera. It's much easier to focus on what you want on the image, where as the camera feels like a bet half of the time (it took me so many tries to get the glowing letters on the keyboard readable). And I'm sure I can do some editing in my phone to make its photos match the appearance of the camera photos. 

Overall I am pretty satisifed with the digital camera. I think I'll have to get used to its quirks (if I should even call them that) to make a proper judgement of it and to make the best use it. Don't think it's going to replace my phone camera completely (being easy to pull out and also to post with are huge benefits) I do hope it'll eventually become my primary camera... assuming I can also get a charger for the camera/battery but uh that's for future me to solve lol.