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PF McFarland
Situations always come up where I don't have a camera with me. This of course was a bigger issue before smartphones with their built-in cameras. I was never a fan of them either, mainly due to the low quality images that came out of them. However, it was a captured image that would not have happened otherwise.
Nowadays the phone companies are in direct competition with camera companies for the photographing public's dollars, so they have invested tons of money and research into creating more sophisticated electronics and lenses in order to drag folks away from their compact digital cameras and into the smartphone sphere so they can sell more phones.
I will occasionally see something and think to myself "I need to come back here with a real camera", or "I wish I had a real camera to have caught what just happened" mainly because I still don't care for the output from a phone camera. That can be attributed to the fact I don't really even like having a phone with me (but learned early on they are handy to have in an emergency) so I don't spend big bucks to have the latest and greatest phone. But I have used it sparingly for sometimes documentary purposes, such as images of street/road signs so I can remember later on where I took the film images.
The other day though was one of those times the phone came in really handy. I was out shopping for furniture when this appeared:
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
One of four such cars built by George Barris for the Batman TV show back in the late sixties. The original was done on a Lincoln Futura show car built in Italy, while the next three were made from stretched Galaxy frames. All were somewhat different, with this one being the dragster variant as evidenced by the parachute packs on either side of the "turbine exhaust".
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
I didn't want to get in the way, so I just grabbed some quick shots of them preparing to load it in a hauler, then went on my way. I did have to do some cropping due to the super wide aspect of my phone camera, and I hate the digital zoom feature. Just trying to get as much quality out of the phone as I could.
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
Anyway, I don't know as we need a phone section for images, but I wanted to share that yes, one can do decent snaps with it. I wouldn't want one as my main camera though.
PF
Nowadays the phone companies are in direct competition with camera companies for the photographing public's dollars, so they have invested tons of money and research into creating more sophisticated electronics and lenses in order to drag folks away from their compact digital cameras and into the smartphone sphere so they can sell more phones.
I will occasionally see something and think to myself "I need to come back here with a real camera", or "I wish I had a real camera to have caught what just happened" mainly because I still don't care for the output from a phone camera. That can be attributed to the fact I don't really even like having a phone with me (but learned early on they are handy to have in an emergency) so I don't spend big bucks to have the latest and greatest phone. But I have used it sparingly for sometimes documentary purposes, such as images of street/road signs so I can remember later on where I took the film images.
The other day though was one of those times the phone came in really handy. I was out shopping for furniture when this appeared:
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
One of four such cars built by George Barris for the Batman TV show back in the late sixties. The original was done on a Lincoln Futura show car built in Italy, while the next three were made from stretched Galaxy frames. All were somewhat different, with this one being the dragster variant as evidenced by the parachute packs on either side of the "turbine exhaust".
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
I didn't want to get in the way, so I just grabbed some quick shots of them preparing to load it in a hauler, then went on my way. I did have to do some cropping due to the super wide aspect of my phone camera, and I hate the digital zoom feature. Just trying to get as much quality out of the phone as I could.
Batmobile by P F McFarland, on Flickr
Anyway, I don't know as we need a phone section for images, but I wanted to share that yes, one can do decent snaps with it. I wouldn't want one as my main camera though.
PF
charjohncarter
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Pfreddee
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Every now and again....
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Pfreddee(Stephen)
With best regards.
Pfreddee(Stephen)
ChrisPlatt
Thread Killer
Whenever I wear a jacket or coat a lightweight pocket 35 is in the inside chest pocket.
Chris
Chris
agentlossing
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Now that phone cameras have gotten pretty good for snapshooting, I wonder how much we might like them if they had something like a 35/40/45mm equivalent lens, instead of the 28mm that they all seem to have now? It's a bit easier to compose artistically closer to a normal lens (I'll freely admit that even though my GR goes with me everywhere).
markjwyatt
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Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
It's been said many times, "the best camera is the one you have with you".