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Camera phones – from the Intellect to the Tsunami

The term camera phone commonly refers to cellphones with a built in digital camera, that allows it to capture stills and short video clips, store them, and share them with other devices and users through wireless communications technologies.

The first mobile picture phone prototype, entitled the Intellect, was invented in 1993 by Daniel A Henderson, and now resides in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The Intellect was a hand held cell phone with a large monochrome display that could receive and display digital picture and video data sent by a wireless transmitter, and pioneered many of the technologies and protocols that were to find their way into the modern camera phone.

During the nineties, there were several attempts to combine mobile phones with digital camera technology. Camera manufacturers Kodak and Olympus demonstrated several digital camera/mobile phone combinations at trade shows during the nineties, and Apple tried a different tack with a combined mobile videophone and PDA. Impressive as these devices were, they lacked one crucial element of the modern day cameraphone – they could not connect to the internet, and were therefore unable to quickly and easily share images with other users, without physical connection to a computer.

The first camera phone to be able to do this, the Sharp J-SH04, was released commercially in Japan in 2001, with a US release the following year.

The ability to take pictures and share them quickly and easily with others was one of the main selling points of the new 3G phone services, so naturally phone manufacturers were keen to include cameras with their new phones wherever possible in order to start making money from their expensive 3G licenses. By 2006, over half of all mobile phones had in built cameras, which was to prove catastrophic for the digital camera industry, forcing two of the big four manufacturers, Minolta and Konica, out of business.

At the end of 2008, there were over 1.9 billion cameraphones in circulation worldwide, and that figure looks set to rise even higher over the coming years.

Footage shot by citizen journalists on cameraphones has even started to crop up on major television news bulletins. The first major international breaking news story to use cameraphone footage in this way was the 2005 Boxing Day Tsunami.

With the advent of video sharing platforms such as Youtube, and its rapid acceptance as a format for breaking news footage, cameraphone footage has become an increasing part of the visual fabric of our culture.

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dslr vs dslr like?

So yahoo had an article about some upcoming digital cameras. This one has me questioning purchasing a dslr.

I’m an amateur but I would like to make photography a hobby, maybe shoot some weddings, pet pictures, etc, but primarily for my own enjoyment. I have a kodak easyshare z710, but I need an upgrade.

To me the key to your question is, “but I need an upgrade”. So just what is your Kodak doing that is holding you back? I really do not see the Olympus as THAT much “better” than what you have. It has some more MP, which is NOT always a better thing with a P&S. Cramming more and more MP on the same tiny sensor does nothing but make noise worse at high ISO. The Olympus has more zoom, but any extreme zoom range lens like that is always a compromise with photo quality. What kind of barrel and pin cushion distortion will it have?

By the way, Olympus cameras are high quality, so don’t let that deter you, I just feel if you are wanting a REAL upgrade, you should not fall for the hype the manufacturers put out on a neverending spiral to keep the general public constantly buying “upgraded” point and shoots, which is still really all it is, call it dslr-like if you want, it is not even close.

If you want to truely expand your skill and learning, you will NEVER accomplish it with a camera such as this. It is just another version of what you already have.

Even a basic dlsr will open up another world of creative ability to you, not to mention much better photo quality. Don’t fall into the “more MP is better” mindset. I would MUCH prefer a dslr with SIX MP as opposed to a P&S with 10 MP. It is the SIZE of the sensor, and in turn the pixels, that gives the dslr it’s quality advantage, especially at high ISO. Of course, you can equip the dslr with extremely high quality lenses also if you want to pay the price. NO P&S will equal your lens choice in quality with the dslr.

Stick with getting the Canon xt or xti, you will be GLAD you did in the long run.

Steve

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