Camera from 2008-2010

Maybe, but it varies more with make and model than it does over time.

 

One of my favourite digital cameras is an all-plastic Kodak with Schneider zoom lens. The colour from it has a fairly unique rendering with strong reds and blues. However, another - supposedly improved - Kodak from slightly later has a disappointingly 'meh' look.

 

I suspect you could pick a handful of cameras, all made in the same year, and get a different colour rendering from every one of them. And none of them would have a signature look for that particular year.

 

OK, but there is still probably enough difference that you can extract make, and time in two dimensions. Model would depend on how many different sensors, and specifically filter designs, they use. Time on how often they changed them.

 

Though it is probably easier to extract from the JFIF data, so you would have to remove that.

Do editing programs have the option to remove it and add their own data as the creator of the resulting file?

As others have said, its a lot more than just the camera: people's entire attitudes and ways of carrying themselves change every few years, plus fashions, colors, cars, etc, etc.

 

Leaving that (big) part of it out, and assuming you do just want to emulate a particular technical "look", it would help if you link to samples. We need to know if the specific MySpace photos that interest you were made with the crude phone cameras of the era, or normal pocket digital point-and-shoot. The phone cameras were almost all total garbage in the early '00s, creating distinctively awful snaps that anyone could tell came from a phone. But the pocket "real" cameras were surprisingly good by 2002 already: I have many many travel pics from a tiny Nikon CoolPix 3.2 MP that still rival anything I took with a thousand-dollar DSLR. Other popular pocketables were the Canon SureShots and a variety of Panasonic, Sony, whatever pocket cams.

 

By 2008 phone cams took a big leap with the introduction of the first iPhone, tho they are still easily identified now as a somewhat dated "phone cam look".

 

It might even be as simple as there were no such things as instant "filters" like you see in modern phones and social media apps: most of the early social media pics are unretouched, ordinary straight out of camera photos with no predictable, everybody does it style filters.

Edited January 13, 2021 by orsetto

Around that timeframe my wife and I were on vacation and one day were photographing the same subject (we were in the high desert). She had a Canon p&s and I had a Panasonic one (with a Leica Vario something or other lens), both 8mpx. Comparing our shots, the Canon color was 'cool' and the Panasonic 'warm'. I never had another Panasonic, but she would have four Canons and all of them had a cool tone to them out of the camera.

Of course! I am Tyra and I am working on a personal project that is very late 00's (2005-2010 ish), I don't know a lot about cameras so that's why I decided to come on here. I think what I am looking for is a like compact camera that was from that era, do you have any suggestions maybe?

 

I had a series of Panasonic Lumix pocket-sized point & shoot cameras beginning probably around 1999-2000 and up. Most of them were kinda bare bones but with decent enough lenses. I'd guess that if one could find any complete set (camera, batteries, & charger), any lesser quality SIM card could work and you'd have everything you'd need to replicate early 21st century photos? Low mp count, funky old pocket camera, what else would she need?

 

US/NY on eb@y Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FX3 6.0MP Digital Camera - Black Bonus Crumpler Pouch Incl 885170005143 | eBay

 

EDIT: it is also true that with proper costuming and/or lighting, any modern camera with masterful photo editing, one could emulate probably any era- but this kinda kills the spirit of a thing, wouldn't you agree? Our OP has stated that she doesn't know a lot about cameras, yet she has a vision. I'm not one to insist she reshape her vision. I encourage her to hang onto and run with it. The above link is to a camera, a battery, and a charger. 35.00, USD.

 

For that matter, I know a couple people who shoot using OLD cameras- like early 20th century cameras with late 19th century lenses. The resulting photographs are unlike any other.

 

COULD one replicate this "look" with modern equipment? Maybe but then who would even care? Glass plate photos or tintypes made on antique gear in the mid 21st century are heavenly. A digital mock-up of that is just another (among literally millions) digitally produced photo that any reasonably astute schmuck could crank out at will with as little as a phone and a laptop.

 

One may fake it all day long, but in the end, NOTHING beats authenticity.

Tyra, go for it sister!

Edited January 20, 2021 by Ricochetrider

Tyra, I seriously doubt we are related at all but we share our surname.

Best luck with your vision and the project.

Tom Banks aka Ricochetrider