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i do belive most consumers trick themselves into believing their cameras of olden times must have been shit because they store their images as JPG in system drives that are being reorganized dozens of times over the years. Even worse if people store their data on optical medium or Solid State Containers
as a result the ten year old JPGs will appear much shittier than they did on the day they were shot.
Same goes for all mpeg video files.
In Short most people believe their cameras used to record shit quality because they use the wrong storage and handling methods for their files.
On the other hand sensor are getting better.