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A photo taken of a US soldier Explaining to other American soldiers they are being cooked by a Radar, Orgun-E Afghanistan 2003
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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That's a really high quality photo for 2003. Most photographs from that time were early digital cameras and tended to max out about 720p resolution. It also doesn't look like a scanned photograph because there's no grain.
Canon Powershot cameras would have been the "standard" at the time, and had 3-4MP sensors in 2003 depending on price range.
The main issue with those early digicams was lacking dynamic range, so a sunny sky would almost always be glaring white.
But in this pic, that wouldn't show, since the dynamic range is very low.