Apple iPhone 5C makes comeback as retro digital camera
While modern smartphones offer increasingly better cameras, there has been a trend for years, particularly among younger users, toward older, inexpensive compact cameras to take photos with a retro 2000s look without resorting to a digital filter. Now this trend appears to have reached the Apple iPhone 5C from 2013.
According to data from Compare and Recycle, searches for "Buy iPhone 5C" increased by 40,500 percent over the past year, searches for "iPhone 5C camera" saw growth of 1,815 percent, and "iPhone 5C" alone was searched for almost four times as often as the year before. The iPhone 5C has a single 8-megapixel f/2.4 main camera with a 35 mm-equivalent focal length of 33 mm and a positively tiny 1/3.2-inch sensor.
This puts the hardware roughly on par with a very cheap compact camera from that era, although even cheap compact cameras often came with a zoom lens. While the iPhone 5C lacks a xenon flash compared to most dedicated compact cameras, iOS and Wi-Fi make it possible to automatically sync photos with a more modern smartphone or send them to friends.
Despite its outdated hardware, our in-depth review shows that the iPhone 5C can take perfectly usable photos in daylight. However, Compare and Recycle warns of security risks. The latest operating system that runs on the iPhone 5C is iOS 10.3.3, and it has not received security patches for years. It is therefore advisable not to store any sensitive data on an iPhone 5C and to use a throwaway account to log in to the App Store and iCloud.
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