I've taken images with my iphone whose quality surprise
me. I've taken some real dogs, too.
The biggest hurdle is getting past everything these phones
aren't and embracing all they are: easy, present, fast, of good quality.
I'm not going to capture with my iphone what I can capture with
my 5DM2 but I don't always have my big gun with me. I do ALWAYS have my
iphone.
In the very insightful words of Chase Jarvis...the best camera
is the one you have with you.
As far as the images creating a body of work that is trivial yet
enjoyable to make I'd simply say that much art is just that. Especially
work created at the forefront of the a new technology. A lot of what's
created with phones these days is testing, stretching, exploring the
limits of what this new breed of camera technology can do. Some of it's
a flop. Some of it is pretty amazing.
I have a friend with thirty years experience as a tv news
reporter for a local station. Her iphone's video camera and a few
downloaded apps have allowed her to create content on the fly, faster
and easier than she's ever been able to do with all her station's fancy
gear. AND she can do it all by herself in the field without a separate
camera man, sound man, film editor. She creates content, emails it to
the station and moves on to a new story. With a camera that fits in her
pocket. To say this is revolutionary is an understatement.
Think how the Brownie camera transformed photography for the
masses. Cell phone cameras are doing the same thing.
They're changing the very way we experience the world from up to
the moment news stories (think of the plane that went down in the
Hudson) to images of new babies being introduced to grandparents across
the country within moments of being born.
We are on the front edge of an overhaul of popular photography
as we've known it. Digital cameras started it. Cell cameras have taken
the ball and run with it.
I'll be interested in others' thoughts on this.
Lea
On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Don Roberts wrote:
The new Droid
phones have up to 5 MP and a 4x zoom.
Beyond that I can't comment. I have never seen quality from a phone
that made me even want to remember to use the camera. Possibly my
mistake.
Don
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wrote:
OK, be honest, what do you think about these pictures? I'm both
depressed and intrigued. It is trivial yet probably very enjoyable art
to do? The worst kind!
Seriously - what make of phone available in the U.S. for Verizon has the
best camera?
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SPAM] iPhone stuff
From: Trevor Cunningham <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, December 05, 2009 12:50 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I know some of you are hopelessly anchored to your iPhones, though
things seem to be getting quiet as the market begins to wane. Came
across this link in the alt-photo list to some interesting iPhone work:
http://www.iphoneartistry.com/iphoneimages.html
do great in the small things
