You are talking about the digital, heavily processed photos here that are indeed a lot nicer than the originals taken and.printed 50 years ago. The originals were actually a bit under/over exposed (very harsh light in space), and quite grainy.

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isoprophlex 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I get your point, but no amount of post processing gives my iphone 17 pro portraits the sharpness and atmosphere of what i shoot with my crappy nikon with a prime lens.

And I feel that these old analogue photos contain even more magic in the base material, digital reconstruction notwithstanding

	▲	astrange 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those are medium format images. Rent a Fujifilm GFX100 if you want to try something like that. Storage space for the raws adds up though.