Just got back from a quick break in Spain and I realised I don’t actually own a camera so I just went with my phone, a Nokia N70. Now I’ve had a “mega-pixel” camera phone before, the 7610, and I was pretty impressed at the time with the quality, and strange lomographic quality it burns into the photos. But the 2meg camera that the N70 has really suprised me. I thought I’d upload a couple of bland scenery photos to show how much camera phones have really improved, and this isn’t even the latest and greatest 7 megapixel phone you might see in Japan. The camera is great in macro- but the lense isn’t much good for anything else. These photos are straight off the phone but shrunk from 1600×1200 down to 1024×768, you can even produce some really nice effects by flipping the phone into both night, and negative mode.
So they aren’t quite up to a standard where you’d like to make prints, but I’ve found the Nokia cameras in particular to be quite good fun as they produce some unexpected results that vary with lighting conditions; the Sony Ericsson cameras on the other hand, whilst having lower resolutions in general, have better lighting and definition. Definitely a step in the right direction for personal photography. 🙂
