How often do you use the camera in your cell phone?

[Doug]

Entertaining way to make your point, Clancy... 🙂

 

[PatrickONeill]

I use mine almost daily, a cheep crappy cell phone, but it gets the job done. I use it mostly to take notes that I txt to evernote so I don't forget things. and If I have some time to kill, try to take a decent picture of my life at that moment. why the heck not?

should a photographer ever be philosophically opposed to a camera?

sounds kind of silly.

 

[meanstreetshooter]

Camera in cell phone

Camera in cell phone

I use the camera to take a mug shot of the person whose number in in the index. If not a person then it would be some type of icon for the listing, e.g. Harley-Davidson logo for the Harley shop phone number. Just for fun. 🙂

 

[aafuss]

I have a Sony Ericsson W508 and use its camera often-its 3MP camera can take nice photos and I find its capture options to be a nice assortment-it has in-camera panorama, night and burst modes.

 

[_goodtimez]

I never use it cause I don't have one, on purpose. Phones should be used for phoning and camera to take pictures shouldn't they ?

 

[Uncle Bill]

I am a died in the wool analog shooter but I use my iPhone 4's camera function a lot especially if I use the light meter app. As a point and shoot the iPhone 4 is pretty powerful and I'm stunned at what I can get from it.


Wolves by Bill Smith1, on Flickr


Moose by Bill Smith1, on Flickr


Marcus by Bill Smith1, on Flickr


View from my client's window. by Bill Smith1, on Flickr

 

[barnwulf]

Never. Jim

 

[muser53]

Even though I use the camera only to pair photos with callers I've seen some excellent work from cell cameras the best being Damon Winters essay from Afghanistan linked here:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/

Shows that there is a time and place for everything.

 

[hudsong]

Here's some from the last few weeks 🙂

 

[efirmage]

I used to use it so often that I picked up a Canon S95 to carry with me. Great little camera, though the iPhone 4 camera is better than nothing.

 

[rizraz]

My home phone doesn't come with a camera, so can't use that........

My cellphone/mobilephone/handphone come with a crappy "camera", used them maybe a handful of times, and that was after a lot of buggering from the better half..... so I can have her or my liitle angel's photo as wallpaper 🙂

 

[bigeye]

I use the cell whenever we straighten the bumper of my truck with a wooden barrel, ancient payloader and homemade forklift.

Some of my complex and technically sophisticated images simply overwhelm my other cameras.

 

[matthewm]

A few favorites with either my iPhone 3G or 4, can't remember exactly which ones were shot with which phone... All of them were edited in-phone with various apps. 🙂

 

[totifoto]

My cellphone doesnt have a camera.

 

[Bike Tourist]

I use the cell whenever we straighten the bumper of my truck with a wooden barrel, ancient payloader and homemade forklift.

Some of my complex and technically sophisticated images simply overwhelm my other cameras.

Exactly. That's what I always say.

 

[DougK]

I use the camera on my iPhone 3GS all the time, sometimes even while I'm carrying a "real" camera. It's a different tool that gives me a different look and it's fun to play with. Having it around actually got me back into the habit of looking for photos wherever I am. I've also noticed that I can grab photos that I could never have gotten with a camera simply because no one pays attention to someone fiddling around with a cell phone. I'm probably never going to get shots suitable for big prints, but that isn't the point.

I took this one on a whim one night while I was waiting for my wife just because I liked the light. Turned out OK and again, it keeps me in the habit looking for pictures, which will help when I'm carrying a more capable camera with me.

 

[SonC]

I upgraded to an iPhone 4 last week, and the camera quality is markedly better than my old iphone. Still noisy in low light, and saturated in bright light, but I like having a decent point and shoot in my pocket. The flash sucks though.
Here's a shot in the yard yesterday. It seems to do great with macro . . .

 

[---f]

Yes. Even THAT phone is a pain in the a$$ sometimes!
I had a friend who only had a pager. When he got a beep he would check the number. If it was someone he knew and wanted to speak with them, he would go to a pay phone and call them back. Smart guy!
No pay phones left nowadays though.

In my day, that type of man was called a "drug dealer".

 

[AK66]

I have one of those military-grade rubberized cellphone. It works perfectly as a phone but it doesn't have a camera, which is ok for me because I prefer making phone calls with a phone and take pictures with the camera.
My wife, however, has one of those fancy-schmency android phones with 5MP (supposedly) camera, and I have to admit, that her cellphone takes much better pictures than my cameras make phone calls 😉

 

[Ade-oh]

I use mine a lot for snapshots, and it's great! Certainly as good as the first digital p&s I owned.