Ah for a Decent Camera…
You know those moments when you see something and you think, wow I wish I had a camera. I get those moments all the time… (of course I still want a real camera) but having my Nokia N95 with its 5meg camera on me all the time means I can get those photos that I have always wanted to.
Tonight was no exception. I caught up with an old friend over a glass of wine in town to discuss how to build some web presence for a friend of hers and ended up catching the train home at dusk.
So here are the best 4 of the photos that I took…..
But instead of just saying here are the photos, I thought I would add a few more comments. Firstly, 70% of the photos I took worked… that is to say what I saw on the screen of the phone was what I saw on the screen of my computer. But of course that leave 30%. One of the reasons I don’t often load images straight to Flickr or Ovi from my phone is that on the 320×240 screen they look great. But take that 5mg image and see it 1:1 on a big 24″ monitor and it looks utter crap. There is still a big fail of expectation between what you see and what you get. Sure some of it is me but a lot isn’t.
The other catch is that controlling the colour is an interesting experiment most of the time. Of course what I see in the camera is what I get, but it is often not what I actually see 🙂 But notice that, I did refer to it as a camera. Not my phone. When I am calling some one my nokia is my phone, but it is now my camera as well. And depending on when I am using the device and for what is often how I refer to that device. Perhaps for me at least convergence of technology has reached a threshold. For a truly convergent device is one that does many things with out you thinking about it. This has become such a device.
Of course I still don’t have my real camera. I know which one I want however (and for the record I have my heart set on the Nikon D90), and whilst my heart it set on it, my wallet is not able to stretch that far. But maybe next year I will get the camera I want. But then even when I do get it, I will still have my phone on me the rest of the time… and then that will be my camera, or was it my phone.
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