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by learn_more 3159 days ago
Analog is more intimate than digital. When I look at the night sky through my binoculars, the photons of distant stars land upon my retina. They touch me, and I touch them, despite the stars being light years away.

When I look through a digital camera, I see the stars but I know the photons are fraudulent. The information is there, but it's lost something.

With analog, if I could focus better, I'd see more and more detail, until it's inseparable from noise, but it's still in there somewhere

With digital, if I zoom, I know I'll find just a pixel or a cold dead square wave.