Symbian in Motion

Camera Phones

by Zach at 7:45 am | May 28th, 2008 | Category: Imaging

I have long been of the opinion that “camera phones” can never and will never replace good quality good stand-alone digital cameras. I still maintain that opinion. The quality will never be as good, the available resolution will never be as high, and so on. The usefulness of the camera phone - for me - is capturing random places in time. Situations that creep up on you in your every day life. In doing so however, it’s nice to have a camera phone that is capable of capturing a good photograph as opposed to a blurry pixelated mess.

This past Monday I snapped a picture of something on my N95 8GB and emailed it to a friend. Her response upon opening the photo:

Woh, that picture was taken on a phone?!

Sure, the photo quality is nowhere near that of a solid dSLR or even a good lower-end digital camera like my Sony Cybershot H9. When you’re out and about however, there are few camera phones capable of capturing random places in time better than the N95. Had I taken said photo with a lesser camera phone, sure my memory of the situation would have been immortalized. Sure, I could have emailed it across to my friend. Sure, she would have seen it. Would she have had the same reaction when she saw the image though? Would she have been able to see the sharp lines and great detail that the N95’s macro mode is capable of capturing or would she have just looked briefly at a dull blur and then moved along?

Just one of the many points in time each day when I’m glad I have an N95 8GB in my pocket.

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