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Thumbs Down for Camera Phones
At least according to all you PhotographyBLOG readers anyway! You voted in your hundreds to say that cameraphones will definitely not be the new digital cameras of the future, with 450 people expressing their disagreement with the question “Will cameraphones be the new digital cameras of the future?”. Only 75 people thought that camera phones would replace conventional digicams.
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#1 Dan
This was the wrong question to ask...
The question should have been will cameraphones replace low end point and shoot digital cameras. That would have been a much more lively poll. Of course they won't replace high end cameras for artists/photographers, and it won't touch the midrange ($300-$600) cameras for family vacations, but for the low end super small cameras that people take with them to parties and quick get togethers, absolutely they will.
Don't believe me?
look at the picture quality of the new LG vx-8000
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=d2ebef3e0ef3dfbf87d7087dcfb15afc&threadid=377220&highlight;=+8000
When I have that kind of camera with me at all times as part of my phone, my super small digital camera will be going up on e-bay.
1:45 pm - Friday, August 20, 2004
#2 Fazal Majid
I don't like this trend either, but the vast majority of the public is not very sensitive to quality, and will be happy with cameraphones.
There is a silver lining, however - digicam manufacturers will have to improve even their midrange offerings to differentiate themselves. I think at some point in time, they will have to use larger sensors like the APS-sized ones used in DSLRs, instead of the cheap, tiny and noisy ones they use today.
4:07 pm - Friday, August 20, 2004