Barrett Tries his Camera Phone (yikes!)

[Morca007]

It usually helps, as in your case, to have good light on your side.

For sure, the light was near perfect that day.
Of course, it becomes near useless in low light.

ywenz- Samsung D-807

 

[clarence]

I want a cell phone with a built in lightmeter.

Clarence

 

[amateriat]

Clarence, your problem is that you come up with ideas that make too much sense. This is a sure-fire sign that an idea such as this will never be implemented. (On the other hand, Apple's iPhone is at least quasi-open-architecture. Wouldn't it be cool if...)


- Barrett

 

[Ash]

I've shown this before... but yea, 3.2mp camera on my phone. Sony Ericsson K800i - Sony-Cybershot built in.

Auto Everything, though. This is a bad pic from my camera/phone. Some are great, some are awful. 🙂

 

[erikhaugsby]

This is the best I got from my camera (a Samsung Trace). The conditions were pretty poor, however, as it was taken during a Decemberists concert (in the Madison Orpheum). Lighting was all over the place, hence the washed-out Colin Meloy.

edit: added another picture with (slightly) more consistent, if not much darker, lighting.

 

[clarence]

Even if it were open source, the camera's far too expensive to make it worthwhile.

I have some new thoughts on light meters, after having to shoot without one in the past 3 months or so, because of a broken light meter. I didn't have a small digital point and shoot nor a phone camera (my phone is a 7 year old Sony Ericsson), and so I relied on either sunny 16 or my Canon Powershot G3 for gauging exposure.

The Canon was huge and heavy (for a lightmeter), and switching it on just to take a reading was quite troublesome. My new selenium cell lightmeter just arrived and I'll certainly be using it. I doubt, however, that it will be as accurate, especially in a low light situation, as the digital camera.

Bill Mattocks said it best in another thread when he said that if you can afford the weight and mass for a spare roll of film, you can carry a lightmeter. I tend to get obsessed about size and function, though, and it just seems such a waste to me that all these phone cameras can't give out basic exposure data.

Clarence

 

[tedwhite]

I've got an old Gossen Sixtomat. It's about the size of a pack of Camels and of course will fit in most any pocket. It's also dead reliable, whether in reflective or incident mode.

As I know nothing of camera phones I can't comment on them. But the Gossen is a nice little item to walk out the door with.