OK, so I guess most here might scoff at the quality of phone cameras. But if you had to choose - what's hot? Megapixels aren't everything, but do the Carl Zeiss lenses on Nokia's phones actually help? Does the "cybershot" branding on sony-ericsson phones actually mean anything? Worth getting a xenon flash over the normal LEDs?

Of the models out right now, does anyone have a recommendation?

Thanks!

Funny you should ask. For last weekends competition I entered a shot taken with my Sony Ericcson k750i and although I say so myself (which I do) I thought it was an excellent image and should have won the weekend competition hands down and without question. Unfortunately my fellow members didn't rate it quite so high and if the real truth be known, my image never so much as got a single vote. Now I know that the phone itself is excellent which only leaves me to surmise that my colleagues have simply got no taste.

Seriously though, given good lighting conditions it can produce a pretty good, sharp and saturated image. Anything less that perfect conditions - then forget it. Also, you can forget the zoom function as in my experience this generates an unbelievable amount of noise.

If you do get one and consider entering the weekend competition then don't make my mistake of revealing that the images was captured with a mobile phone. It tends to make all those Nikon D3/D300 owners a bit uptight and results in nil votes.

Thanks. Got a link to the picture btw? (I'm intrigued now :D ) Had a look in the competition area but not sure I found your shot.

edit: nevermind, I found it eventually

edit2: damn, pic in the post doesn't load. Ah well.

No you wouldn't - I deleted it from my gallery at the end of the weekend competition.

RLG,

the thread below links to a gallery of iphone pictures - I think they are really good and you may want to check them out.

http://community.dcmag.co.uk/forums/thread/838004.aspx

I saw an edition of the Gadget show a month or so ago which tested mobile phones to see which produced the most natural-looking and pleasing prints from high street printing outfits. The best phone was also one of the cheapest - the Nokia 6500s. It has a 3.2 megapixel sensor and a Carl Zeiss lens. The Gadget show is on Channel 5 and you could probably find out more about the test on their site.

A friend uses a Sony Eriksson 850i (or something like that) and he has taken some very decent pictures on that. I think that Boldondave also uses a camera phone sometimes with good results.

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Here's a review I did over a year ago. I now have the N95 which is really not too bad for a phone. I've printed 10X8s from it and they can look rather nice in the right circumstance.

Flash is terrible, speed is appalling - but my D3 can't pick up email....

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Blast it Eileen - have you seen what the guy has for a front page image? Think weekend competition, think originality and think winner? Now why can't I be that imaginative?

The image keeps changing but I bet you meen this one, its very good Eh!

 

Credit to Greig Scmeigle for his i phone shots

Bob

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No - it's in his Graffiti collection and on the door it's got 'Nobody Cares'. It stirs the imagination to think what lonely soul lives behind that door and what a sad world this can be sometimes. In my working life I once had to break into a flat before finally finding a person who had committed suicide by hanging themselves from an internal door handle using one leg of a pair of womens tights. Even sadder, it had taken several weeks before anyone had missed her. This door image brings the memory to the forefront once again although the event occurred something like thirty years ago now.

The N95 (8GB version) gets my vote...




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Great shots Dave.

The iphone site has some very compelling pictures of people and street scenes that conjure up stories just like yours Alan. I thought the pictures were really special because they have the power to stir your imagination in that way, though I'm sorry they brought back such a bad memory for you.

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Jonathan Ryan:

 but my D3 can't pick up email....

Have you used the right connectors?

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