2026-11-08 17:05 UTC
In my pocket right now I have a cell phone running android that has a better camera on it than any television studio had prior to about 25 years ago, and at least as good as what most television studios were using in the 00s and into the 10s.
(This is perhaps an overstatement. It is a worse camera in several meaningful respects: It has a smaller sensor, but that sensor is significantly more sensitive. It has a worse lens, but not *that much worse* aside from the size. But it can be made to produce footage that looks as good or better than any non-film camera used in television production prior to the mid 2010s, and most since then.)
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@ajroach42@retro.social 2026-11-08 17:12
So I (and most of us) have a camera that produces an image that's as good as or better than the cameras used for most TV production for most of the history of television in our pockets all the time. And that camera is also a full production studio, capable of running a full NLE (I do it all the time, and I bet you do too), capable of broadcasting live to any number of platforms, wirelessly, from anywhere (Edison Carter eat your heart out.)