There are many times I go out without a DSLR or video camera but the phone is always in my shirt pocket. One disadvantage from the nature photographers point of view is the very wide angle lenses mobile phones have as they are presumably designed for close work often in confined places but if you can get close to things then the auto focus on the S.E. phones does a good job.
Yesterday I took a few test shots to check it out as the phone had only arrived at midday.
A line of poplar trees on the boundary of the cricket field, cropped to reduce the height of the picture.
Autumn leaves in the hedge down the lane. Taken from about two feet away and slightly cropped for composition.
I am pleased with the colour reproduction and I think it has lived up well to all the good reviews I had read about this phone.
Shirl of Shirls Gardenwatch has just written about the various cameras she uses at home and out and about. It is an interesting illustrated read and can be found HERE. I don't know about you but I always like to find out what equipment other people are using.
Well I'm thinking those shots are just fabulous, John! I didn't know mobile phones could take such great pics! Just goes to show you, hey? :^)
ReplyDeleteThats a very useful tool to have in your pocket John.
ReplyDeleteWell I thought your old phone gave good results but these are great! I was only thinking the other day how quickly mobiles have become part of everyday life and the cameras on them are really very good these days.
ReplyDeleteHi Pam. Yes the cameras in mobile phones have come a long way in the past few years.
ReplyDeleteIt is Roy. I hate being without a camera but sometimes a large one is not the sort of thing to have hanging round the neck.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jan. I am pleased with it - I almost wish I had gone for an 8M pixel one but I don't use it often enough to warrant the extra expense. Personally I think Sony Ericsson have been the leader in the field for the quality of their phone cameras for quite a few years. My old one was the first made with 3M pixels and as you say it gave good results (and it cost twice what the new one cost me!).
ReplyDeleteThese are excellent results from a camera phone John. They've certainly come a long way since the early days.
ReplyDelete8M pixel on a phone? Makes me wonder what they'll be like in 5 years. Amazing.
John, never thought of using a phone, seriously, a phone is for phoning, a camera is for pictures. Your feminine side is showing. Multitasking!!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Keith. I am pleased with the results. The only reason the trees look a bit fuzzy was the gale which was blowing. It would be nice to have an optical zoom - say 4x. Maybe they will get round to that sort of thing one day.
ReplyDeleteIt's a question of lateral thinking Adrian - well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Also it costs money to make phone calls - photos are free ;)
ReplyDelete...it would be hard to tell these came from a phone camera. They are very colorful and sharp!
ReplyDeleteMe, I'm more likely to carry a camera than a phone. It's more useful too.
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