National Geographic Threw Away All Credibility When They Released This Book!!

I have noticed that in life:

1) Anything you need is right there in front of you.

2) If you can't find it, you don't need it.

 

S/he probably doesn't even realize that it's a phone.
Allen

 

As near as I can tell, using a cell phone camera IS using a pin hole
camera......I am still trying to find the hole on mine.....:^)

 

It is just my personal experience that having a camera when a random event

The same is true for me....I have found that when I do want/need it, the
batteries are dead, or the film is so old that the pictures are
foggy.....Perhaps a digital camera that will operate from my car's cigarette
lighter outlet might work, but carrying film cameras in the car for
emergencies has proven to be a loser with me........

 

Well, there are (or were) cases where a Leica was very good....I used to
smuggle my IIIf into the opera house to film ballet scenes. - It was quiet
enough so nobody knew that I was taking the pictures......Probably today,
one can do this with digital point & shoots.....Has anyone made a survey of
which ones are quietest?

 

Not true.....There is no Ferrari in my garage.
I need a Ferrari........

 

I started out in digital photography with a camera that had a resolution
of 640x480. I am very glad I had that camera as I took a lot of photos
that I would not have "wasted" film on but now almost 10 years later
some of those photos are very dear to me.

Having said that I really wish that the camera had been higher
resolution, whereas the photos are nice to look at and bring back good
memories they are not really suitable for making prints.

I believe that photos gain value as they get older, but our standards as
to what looks good are getting higher as the years go by. 20 years ago
a photo from a cell phone camera would have seemed very good, now not so
much. 20 years from now what seems like a nice artistic photo will
likely not look so good to us. As monitors and TVs get to be higher and
higher resolution the lack of resolution in the cell phone photos will
become more and more glaring.

Scott

 

I agree and feel the same way. I tried the 640x480 route and it didn't work
for me so I bought the good old Kodak DC280 a 2.1 MP camera that took decent
pics for the time. That camera was over $500 when it came out. It was my
eBay workhorse.

I have some great pics from the old Kodak that fall into this category.
They are better than nothing, but I wish I could make some clear 8x10s.

Great point.







Rita

 

I agree! And that is a really awesome shot.

I've played with my camera phone and had some great artsy shots from it.
The problem is when you see all the noise, CA, distortions, and other crap
associated with a cheap camera you simple erase that otherwise great shot.
Doing that makes me more disgusted than not having a camera at all.

Webcams aren't bad for the challenge and they blow away any camera phone.






Rita

 

It was a once in a lifetime capture and it was great! Sadly NG is doing
their audience a major disservice by not paying this guy a nominal fee for
the rights to host it on their sight. Wildlife footage like this is well
suited for NG's theme. Once all the excitement dies down this youtube entry
will be forgotten, probably in three weeks.





Rita

 

Let's not forget that each of these camera you speak of was cutting edge
technology when they were introduced. That said, 18 months from now people
will be saying "How could people have suffered so unmercifully with the
mediocre image quality of the Canon Mk III when the MK IV blows it away?"
Technology moves on.






Rita

 

But if he wishes the camera had been, "of higher resolution", then he could
have done a lot better by using a film camera, which has a much higher
resolution than most of the digital cameras that are available today.....

 

That's amazing! My hat's off to anyone who can shoot Brooklyn in 50 days.
Bob Hickey

 

ISO, hi/lo color, B/W, Sepia and some heiroglyphics I havn't deciphered yet.
All built into the hinge. And some day I'm going to figure out how to send
something with it. I have the book, the CD, and I still can't do a simple
thing. Very humbling. Bob Hickey

 

Hello, Ron:

Relax, mon amigo! It's just another of Rita's silly, unimaginative
trolls.


Cordially,
John Turco <>

 

C J Campbell wrote:

Hello, Christopher:

I'm sure you meant Robert Clark, rather than Roger N. Clark, who is a
frequent contributor to <
Of course, Roger is a fairly decent photographer, in his own right...for
a scientist, at least. <g>


Cordially,
John Turco <>

 

I've taken a photograph on a crappy little cameraphone at a lucky
coincidence of weather and light which despite its web-page snapshot
resolution is so evocative that I've been unable to better it despite
visiting the location a few times with heavy-duty kit. It needs a
heavy rainstorm at a certain time of day

 

NGeo has a special section in the September issue dedicated to strictly
Cell phone pictures. Someone must have convinced them it was a
worthwhile experiment. -G

 

The best thing (and perhaps the only thing) that is good about camera phones
is that you have them with you all the time, so it is possible that you
might get a picture with one that you wouldn't have been able to get under
most any other circumstances. Poor as they are, they are much better than no
camera at all.....:^)

 

I think a better comparison is between a swiss army knife and a
carpenter's tool set, because despite the great superiority of the
tool set, we also understand that a craftsman with a swiss army knife
will often be able to produce better results than a novice with a
full tool kit.

With respect to teaching students how to use technology, it often
helps to start them with technology which is rather limited and has
very obvious limitations, because that forces them to confront those
obvious limitations, understand them, and work within their
limits. That's also what you have to do with a DSLR, but for many
novices a good modern digital camera is so good that they learn
nothing about photography from using it.