At 09:25 AM 10/6/2003 -0700, Alan Zinn wrote:
Kids,
Ah, something addressed to me :-)
I ran across this story about mobile phone cameras out-selling digital cameras.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20030922/tc_pcworld/112576
How does that make this a better world? What other appliances need cameras? Is there art lurking here? Should we begin a PF phone camera gallery?
Mobile phone cameras will replace disposables pretty quickly. They're a lot easier, photos can be emailed directly from the phone, and the technology is going to improve fairly quickly. I saw a story on a new technology that will let the phone camera autofocus (all now are fixed focus) with no mechanical parts.
Mine does 640x480 with a fair amount of jpg compression artifacts and weak colors. But it comes in handy every now and then.
Here's a photo of my morning cup that I took with it:
http://www.spirer.com/images/viz1.jpg
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Jeff,
A Bloody Mary for breakfast?
AZ
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