Eight Reasons that a Camera Phone is better than a D-SLR
SMS
Cell phone cameras produce unbelievable results when used in bright
sunlight. You have no need for a large sensor that can produce excellent
results in poor lighting conditions.
2. You Want Don’t Want a Battery Draining Xenon Flash Tube.
Flash photography is for wimps. You have no need for complicated,
battery-draining flashes.
3. You don’t want to lug around complicated lenses.
Camera phones have lenses made out of the finest Chinese plastic. Why
lug around a huge lens with all those complicated motors and controls.
4. You long for your Instamatic with its “Focus-Free” lens.
Camera phones don’t have complicated auto-focusing motors, or even the
ability to manually focus. What you see is what you get. If you can’t
get the picture then you didn’t need it anyway.
5. You Need Fast Start-Up.
Your phone is always on, so your camera is always ready. No complicated
power buttons.
6. Color quality is unimportant.
You’ve had it with cameras that show proper skin tone and are capable of
wide dynamic range. You like the inaccuracies of a tiny sensor.
7. Prints are so 20th Century.
Not only do you not care about 8x10’s, you don’t even want a 4x6.
E-mailing photos to your friends is sufficient.
8. Cost.
You get a new camera in your phone every two years for free.
PlayingWithResidentTrolls
>1. You Always Shoot in Bright Light.
>
>Cell phone cameras produce unbelievable results when used in bright
>sunlight. You have no need for a large sensor that can produce excellent
>results in poor lighting conditions.
>
Only true for someone without talent. (You reveal much by your comments.)
>2. You Want Don’t Want a Battery Draining Xenon Flash Tube.
>
>Flash photography is for wimps. You have no need for complicated,
>battery-draining flashes.
Available-light purists will find no problem with that. They cherish photography
done without the reality-robbing effects of flash. So do those that understand
true art and the unmistakable poignant moods that can be frozen into images done
without flash.
>
>3. You don’t want to lug around complicated lenses.
>
>Camera phones have lenses made out of the finest Chinese plastic. Why
>lug around a huge lens with all those complicated motors and controls.
You reveal your ignorance and stupidity yet again. Acrylic lenses have better
performance when it comes to chromatic aberrations, ease of manufacture, and
costs. It's a shame that their properties aren't being incorporated into
expensive lenses today. Doing so could solve many of the current problems with
all-glass lenses. Unfortunately, trolls like you would belittle anyone that has
"plastic elements" in their high-performance lenses. Because you are an idiot
and relentless resident-troll online.
>
>4. You long for your Instamatic with its “Focus-Free” lens.
>
>Camera phones don’t have complicated auto-focusing motors, or even the
>ability to manually focus. What you see is what you get. If you can’t
>get the picture then you didn’t need it anyway.
See previous comment. Some of those "Instamatics" incorporated acrylic lenses
that surpassed anything that Fluorite-element lenses can do today.
>
>5. You Need Fast Start-Up.
>
>Your phone is always on, so your camera is always ready. No complicated
>power buttons.
And this is a problem, why? DSLR trolls always proclaim they bought their camera
for start-up speed alone. Not that that will ever help them get a better image
in their lives, but for some reason they choose a camera based on this.
>
>6. Color quality is unimportant.
>
>You’ve had it with cameras that show proper skin tone and are capable of
>wide dynamic range. You like the inaccuracies of a tiny sensor.
>
Since when has color quality ever been important to the DSLR buyer? They rave
about how they NEED RAW just so they can fix what their camera did wrong with
the colors. They live and breathe to find out how their latest editor can repair
everything that their DSLR did wrong to their images.
>7. Prints are so 20th Century.
>
>Not only do you not care about 8x10’s, you don’t even want a 4x6.
>E-mailing photos to your friends is sufficient.
>
In many ways this is true. We are moving into a paperless society. Wall-sized
LCD displays will take the place of prints and projected slides. Where is the
problem with this?
>8. Cost.
>
>You get a new camera in your phone every two years for free.
As opposed to the idiot DSLR owner that insists he needs a new one every year?
Alfred Molon
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Dave Cohen
> 9. It's always with you. Better a photo with some noise than no photo at
> all
Think: you have the misfortune to be involved (or even witness) an auto
accident. News outlets are quite happy to accept an uploaded impromptu
shot taken with a cell phone. If you don't like the images they produce,
don't listen to the .mp3's, you won't like them either.
I suspect SMS made the post in jest but teenagers do love these gadgets.
Dave Cohen
Me Here
If you are clever enough, you can actually make a phone call!!!
SMS
> Number 9.
>
> If you are clever enough, you can actually make a phone call!!!
Often not. I was in Yellowstone earlier this year, and while the CDMA
coverage was fine, those with GSM phones, including iPhones, were out of
luck in most of the park. So all people could use their iphones for were
functions that didn't involve making calls, including taking bad pictures.
It's improved though, since 1997, when there was only AMPS (analog
service). I worked in Yellowstone for three months in 1997 following the
earthquake that hit the park. The natural plumbing to Old Faithful was
heavily damaged. The Army Corps of Engineers was called in to see what
could be done to repair the damage that nature caused. The company I
worked for provided the embedded controllers that were used to control
the steam boilers they installed. It’s a computer controlled system with
massive valves that open based on a pseudo-random schedule to keep
visitors from realizing that it’s no longer naturally erupting. Few
visitors are even aware that it exists, and park rangers won't volunteer
the information for obvious reasons. The boilers are behind the Snow
Lodge, in an excavated and covered pit. When anyone asked what we were
doing we told them that it was a new steam heating system for Old
Faithful Lodge that would enable the lodge to stay open all winter, LOL.
Anyway, cell phone coverage back then really sucked in that area. No
CDMA, no TDMA, of course no GSM, only AMPS.
HolyCrap
A construction project such as this would most definitely be on public record.
There is only one other reported instance of this on the internet, posted by
(guess who) "SMS" at
http://www.wifi-forum.com/wf/showpost.php?p=448381&postcount=101
Thanks for proving your "nothing but a virtual-life living-in-mommy's-basement
troll" existence. So desperate for attention that you even want to start
international geologic rumors.
Does this sound familiar?
>08-09-2006, 09:54 AM
>SMS Posts: n/a
>
> Re: Filed for divorce with Cingular today
>Joe Versaggi wrote:
>
>> I had all 4 bars digital TDMA coverage at Glacier Park Lodge, East
>> Glacier, MT, which actually lies outside Glacier Park boundaries.
>> Within, you are lucky to get an AM radio station. But, people want to
>> play with their electronic toys 24/7/365
>
>I guess it's because of the unsightly towers, but it's amusing that
>national parks will allow all sorts of commercial enterprises and
>technology into the park, but often won't allow cellular sites.
>
>For example, many people go to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful "erupt"
>but few are aware of what happened to Old Faithful, after a small
>earthquake hit the area.
>
>I worked at the Old Faithful area of Yellowstone for three months with a
>private contractor that worked with the Army Corp of engineers to
>install the gas powered steam boilers and pipe work. This was in 1997
>(after Old Faithful stopped erupting naturally). I worked on the
>micro-controllers and the driver circuits for the valve solenoids. The
>valves are opened in a precise sequence to allow the "eruption" to build
>and subside as close as possible to what it did when the eruptions were
>naturally occurring.
>
>It's an amazingly complex system. It had to be programmed to introduce a
>degree of randomness to the eruption interval and duration, but the
>duration of the previous eruption also affects the duration of
>subsequent eruptions. Multiple controllers are used in a voting
>configuration, to ensure reliability, and there is a manual over-ride as
>well, which allows parallel valves to be opened and closed manually.
>
>Almost no park visitors are aware that this system exists, and even most
>of the employees of the concessionaires are not aware of it. The park
>rangers all know, but they won't volunteer the information for obvious
>reasons. Most of the work was done on winter weekdays when the park
>isn't heavily used. The pipes run under the main road, and back behind
>the snow lodge. The few times we were asked by park visitors about what
>we were doing, we told them that we were working on a new steam heating
>system for Old Faithful Lodge, so that it could be kept open year-round.
>
nospam
<scharf...@geemail.com> wrote:
> I worked in Yellowstone for three months in 1997 following the
> earthquake that hit the park. The natural plumbing to Old Faithful was
> heavily damaged. The Army Corps of Engineers was called in to see what
> could be done to repair the damage that nature caused. The company I
> worked for provided the embedded controllers that were used to control
> the steam boilers they installed. It’s a computer controlled system with
> massive valves that open based on a pseudo-random schedule to keep
> visitors from realizing that it’s no longer naturally erupting. Few
> visitors are even aware that it exists, and park rangers won't volunteer
> the information for obvious reasons. The boilers are behind the Snow
> Lodge, in an excavated and covered pit. When anyone asked what we were
> doing we told them that it was a new steam heating system for Old
> Faithful Lodge that would enable the lodge to stay open all winter, LOL.
except that the earthquake occurred in 1998 not 1997, and it just
lengthened the interval. and earthquakes are common there too.
<http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/old_faithful/>
The average interval of Old Faithful was every 76 minutes. An
earthquake occurring in the winter of 1998, effected the time interval
of Old Faithful. Eruptions now occur approximately every 80 minutes
and the bit about old faithful being computer controlled is hilarious!
it's amazing how it has been kept a secret for a decade, and after all
these years, not a single person (other than you) has leaked this key
information. even on the internet where conspiracy theories abound,
there is not a mention of it.
Matt Ion
> Me Here wrote:
>> Number 9.
>>
>> If you are clever enough, you can actually make a phone call!!!
>
> Often not. I was in Yellowstone earlier this year, and while the CDMA
> coverage was fine, those with GSM phones, including iPhones, were out of
> luck in most of the park. So all people could use their iphones for were
> functions that didn't involve making calls, including taking bad pictures.
My 40D has GSM coverage in Yellowstone... score one for the D-SLR!
Fred
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Hilarious!
The DSLR brigade are so uptight they even think that this is serious!!!!
Roy G
No! they are not.
My Nikon never wakes me up.
Roy G