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All the time.
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Every once in a while.
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Only if absolutely necesarry, or for unimportant pictures
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Only if there is no blunt object to hit myself with, because that would be preferable.
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10-30-2012
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SausalitoDog is offline
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Cameras are starting to look and act like phones !!! :-) :-) :-)
Check out the new nikon one that lets you email your photos...
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11-02-2012
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#177
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one90guy is offline
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Interesting results, fairly evenly divided.
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Argus C-3, Bronica SQ-A, Mamiya NC1000S, Nikons D3100, FG, and FM-10, Yashica Lynx 5000e, , Yashica A, Rolleicord lll, and all kinds of old Polaroids
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11-02-2012
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#178
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Dennis Van Patten
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i think it would be nice to see in the future iphone7 probably where , canon , nikon etc make interchangable sensors on the iphone and lens mount so you cana use iti like a mirrorless cmera
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11-02-2012
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#179
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Permanent Beginner
Captain Trips is offline
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 55
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I have worked in construction and found the phone camera useful as a tool, and I don't mean as a hammer! You can record an issue with a physical construction element and send it to someone quickly to deal with. It also saves writing things down. Otherwise I never use mine beyond recording information for later use.
Camera phones I find just awkward to use.
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Fuji, Fuji and Fuji. Nikon, Nikon and Nikon. Rollei and Canon and Sony and Leica.
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11-25-2012
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#180
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Godfrey is offline
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More and more of the time. The iPhone 4S camera is excellent, and it's panorama function works extremely well. I just printed a pano made with it to 32" leng, it looks amazing.
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11-25-2012
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Bill Clark is offline
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Location: Minnetonka, Minnesota
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My wife & I were at Target shopping last Saturday, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. My cousin calls and said my aunt (her Mom) had a note on a rocking chair to give to my wife. My wife hesitated. My aunt and uncle have taken up living in a senior residence. She is 97 and he is 101! My cousin, who has an iPhone, just like us, said she'd take a pic. and e mail to us. She did, we received the pic while still at Target. My wife likes it! Called my cousin back and they said they'd deliver it to our house in about 1 hr.
They did and we visited for about 1 hr.
Fun!
And smiles!
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11-25-2012
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Moderator w/ Power Cosmic
photomoof is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Clark
My wife & I were at Target shopping last Saturday, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. My cousin calls and said my aunt (her Mom) had a note on a rocking chair to give to my wife. My wife hesitated. My aunt and uncle have taken up living in a senior residence. She is 97 and he is 101! My cousin, who has an iPhone, just like us, said she'd take a pic. and e mail to us. She did, we received the pic while still at Target. My wife likes it! Called my cousin back and they said they'd deliver it to our house in about 1 hr.
They did and we visited for about 1 hr.
Fun!
And smiles!
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Amazing isn't it? You are just a bit younger than me.
When I was a kid we did not even have a phone without connecting through an operator on a party line. My mom always yelling at us "don't pick that up, it's not our ring!"
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“Torrents of glowing, crystalline photos rushed across their screens, making a funny and sad contrast with the dozen or so family photographs, developed and printed through the medieval complexities of chemical photography, laboriously framed, and hung on the walls of the room.”
― Neal Stephenson
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11-25-2012
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Vince Lupo is offline
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Use the camera in my iPhone all the time -- nice to have handy, and I can use it to instantly send a scouting photo to a client if need be.
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11-28-2012
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Harry Lime is offline
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I use the camera in my iPhone all the time and have actually managed to take a few good snaps with it. What makes it viable to me are a few things.
I always have it with me.
It shoots color, unlike my other cameras which only shoot b/w.
I like the poor quality of the tiny sensor. The 3G was really great in this respect.
The HDR feature of the iPhone actually gives a useable amount of dynamic range. Better than many compacts.
But I don't use Instagram, Hipstamatic or any of the other programs that process your pics in to uniformity.
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What???? |
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11-30-2012
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kuzano is offline
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What????
I don't know how to get my camera inside my Cell phone. Besides that, I leave my cell phone at home because it has voicemail. So, that would never solve my problem of never having a camera with me.
Pretty ludicrous question if you don't mind.
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11-30-2012
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Godfrey is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I use the camera in my iPhone all the time and have actually managed to take a few good snaps with it. What makes it viable to me are a few things.
I always have it with me.
It shoots color, unlike my other cameras which only shoot b/w.
I like the poor quality of the tiny sensor. The 3G was really great in this respect.
The HDR feature of the iPhone actually gives a useable amount of dynamic range. Better than many compacts.
But I don't use Instagram, Hipstamatic or any of the other programs that process your pics in to uniformity.
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This "one take" panorama made with the iPhone 4S prints to a stunning 32" x 6" size and looks great. It's amazing, really.
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11-30-2012
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#187
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Range-rover is offline
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Never! I don't have one in my Cell Phone.
Range
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11-30-2012
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#188
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ElectroWNED is offline
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every single day
Untitled by MattMattMattMattMatt, on Flickr |
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12-01-2012
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Location: San Francisco
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I never use it for photos, only to record whiteboards at the office, or for videos, where the wide depth of field is an advantage (AF on HDSLRs is useless).
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12-01-2012
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I have had an iPhone, iPhone 3Gs, and now a Samsung Galaxy SIII, all with integral cameras. I use a cell phone as my camera of choice when I want to share the photo with someone NOW. On top of that, the iPhones were pretty good at capturing a quick snap.
The 8MP SIII, in the right light, used in the right way, could be capable of doing "Serious Work(tm)", as long as you aren't printing too huge.
Untitled by unixrevolution, on Flickr
The phone has suprising dynamic range and really saturates the colors. Images from the SIII pop. And the phone camera has quite a few controls, including Exposure comp, manual white balance presets, manual or auto ISO, flash, macro mode, even spot, matrix, or center-weight metering.
The S3's ease of use and the fact that the screen isnt cracked like the one on my Optio A40 means that I reach for it now as my usual backup/sidearm/camera that's always on me. Once I buy myself an RX100, we'll see how often I reach for the Samsung.
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12-01-2012
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Godfrey is offline
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12-01-2012
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Late adopter.
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Nice fish-eye photo.  |
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12-01-2012
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I only use the camera on my phone...in an emergency for documentation. Often the best example is a truck has arrived a my factory and the pallets of glass are now looking like they were hit by a tidal wave...and cases of large numbers of cases are broken...you have to shoot photos in the presence of the driver and at the moment of delivery for insurance purposes...otherwise getting a claim paid is not going to happen. Also having the photo to show the freight company as why the shipment was refused. Then those images are worth their weight in gold !! But as images...forget it.
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12-01-2012
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I only used it 4 or 5 times, during meeintgs, at work, to document the drawnings n the white board. The image quality is just too bad to waste my time on it.
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I have both the IPhone 4S and Nokia N97 I think the Nokia is superior as a camera. low light performance of the Iphone is TERRIBLE. I found out that I just cut off the plastic shield/cover in front of the carl Zeiss lens on the nokia and resolution plus flare resistance became much improved. The Iphone I use only for lightmeter, notebook, music and of course text SMS messages, oh yeah sometimes even for calls when I want to flirt with my girlfriend...
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04-10-2013
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Carterofmars is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iamzip
OK, this is purely for fun and to waste time. It is really not meant to start flame wars, rants, arguments, or any of that. Obviously a camera phone is not a serious tool. tha being said, just about everybody has one, so let's hear it!
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No question should provoke rants, flame wars, etc; rigidity in people's believe systems do. |
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04-10-2013
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What I hate about my iPhone camera is that it takes several seconds for it to be ready: click home button, swipe camera icon, stare at stylised picture of a closed aperture for ages and only then can you start framing.
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04-10-2013
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ενεβλεψεν
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The iPhone 5 camera is much better than the iPhone 4 was, and I think it works better with the Camera app than Camera+. Camera+pro made the 4 work pretty good.
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04-10-2013
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kuzano is offline
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Camera?
There's a camera in my Cell Phone?  |
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04-10-2013
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Ah looky looky
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. I like my phone because sometimes you're out of film, left the camera in the car, need something to caputre a shot in a pickle. And just becuase you're in a pickle where you don't have a camera with you that doesn't mean you can't TRY to capture a good pic.
Then there's the filter adding.. You can share your pics and throw in a quick and dirty filter. Makes for a fun pic. I'm not expecting it to be shown at ICP but I enjoy looking at it.
One more cell phone pic I like. Sorry to take up so much space!!
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