…The point-and-shoot camera, which has been a part of American households since 1900, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak Brownie, is endangered. Like other single-use devices — the answering machine, the desktop calculator, the Rolodex — it is being shoved aside by a multipurpose device: the smartphone and its camera, which takes better snapshots with each new model….
From the NY Times, the rest of the article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/technology/04camera.html?_r=1
I found this rather interesting and I wondered how many Club members now use a cell phone for a significant part of their shooting? How many members have entered a cameraphone image into a competition – and if you haven’t, why not?
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Can't say I use my phone as a general purpose point and shoot since 1.5 meg is a lower quality than I'd like. Beside I generally have a 10 meg point in shoot in the car generally close-by and pleanty of those have been in competitions and done well.
However the smartphone finds itself often replacing a notepad. e.g. I see an interesting article in a magazine suggesting a cool website or two, I click the relevant details. See a possible investment property: click the house images and realtor's sign. At a business meeting and we've just filled the whiteboard with some great ideas: click! Come across a nice waterfall or other scene I'd like to photograph under difference light or with a model at a future date ... Click!
Plus I get the GPS coordinates of where I took the image so I can always get back there 😉
Soon, whenever she wanted to take a picture, she found herself reaching for the smartphone, a Droid Incredible. She barely uses her point-and-shoot, a Panasonic DMC-LX3.
True, the Driod Increduble has 8 megapixels and LED flash, but leave a f2.0 Panasonic LX3 for it?
Ahh, the legendary Leica Summicron beaten by a droid!