Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was in Times Square all last week. Everybody had a cell-phone camera taking photos of the neon lights, the naked cowboy, and all of the characters roaming around. Canons outnumbered Nikons about 5 to 1. Cellphones outnumbered all other cameras combined about 10 to 1. I had the only Leica I saw. Some people held up their iPads to take photos in Times Square and on the Liberty cruises and on the Staten Island Ferry and on top of the Rockefeller Center. I took photos with my Leica of people taking photos with their cellphones and iPads. Photos to come later. Tina On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > Times Square is a good place to get ones finger on the pulse of what's > happening with photography for the average person of the world. > Now that I look it up as I write this I see " Times Square is the world's > most visited tourist attraction, bringing in over 39 million visitors > annually." > And I see a lot of people shooting the neo and billboards with their cell > phones. More those than small cameras. But more than that I see normal > sized > DSLR's. Plenty of what would appear by size to be full frames but more > scaled down ones which I'm sure would be 1.5 crops. Oh and I see almost no > 4/3's and I'm looking hard. > > I still don't know what they do with the captures after they take them. > Have 4x6 snapshots made? I think maybe not. > Upload to internet galleries? I think maybe so. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:33:17 -0500 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION????????? > > > > Thanks, Robert > > > > Sometimes it works out, sometimes (most) it doesn't. If I remember > > correctly, the iPhone 4 is an 8 mp camera. My first digital camera was > 2mp. > > Not sure about the correlation of mp to IQ. But, with some decent light, > > the iPhone seems to give a reasonable image. > > > > Ken > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org > > [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Robert > > Meier > > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:54 PM > > To: Leica Users Group > > Subject: Re: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION????????? > > > > Ken -- Those are VERY impressive images. Robert > > > > > > On Aug 18, 2012, at 6:41 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > > > >> Ted, > >> > >> I like my iPhone. The file size is fine for an 8x10 or so print. > >> Plus, if things aren't moving around, you have an HDR setting that > >> works well. For working on the images, you can get the NIK Snapseed > >> app - it's either free or $10, I don't remember. When you get the > >> image right you can mail it so someone. However, the key was when a > >> friend showed me how to use the shutter button. You don't press it to > >> make the exposure. You put your thumb on it, hold it down and then > >> when all is right gently release it. I predict that within a month you > > will have about 50 photo apps on it :). > >> > >> Here are a few snaps with the iPhone. I think it is safe to say they > are > >> not Leica quality, but not too bad for a phone. The one of my son at > >> the shooting range is HDR. If you look closely you can see a little > >> movement where the three images did not exactly coincide. Now if I > >> change from ATT I can even talk with people on it. > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/013_001.jpg.html > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/IMG_0082.jpg.html > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/IMG_0221_001.jpg.html > >> > >> > >> Ken > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org > >> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > >> tedgrant at shaw.ca > >> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:41 PM > >> To: Leica Users Group > >> Subject: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION????????? > >> > >> Hi crew, > >> > >> If you were going to buy, for a better name? "A camera-phone?" which > >> would you consider best "CAMERA PHONE" on the market? > >> > >> I don't care if I can talk to some one in Berlin or my next door > neighbor! > >> Communication isn't relative. I want the best and most adaptable as a > >> camera? THINK "absolutely cool camera!" Not an iphone that can make > >> images and talk to your long lost uncle at the same time! However that > >> maybe as good as they get? > >> > >> It's for a research program I was asked to think about and be involved > >> in as a "FOR REAL PHOTOGRAPHER?" Using an iphone? Or whatever they're > >> called? And not an EIO!... "ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENT OPERATOR." Someone > >> who knows all the telephone/radio/maps/apps? Whatever the hell that > >> is??? And all the other magical things one can do.... and who knows > how > > to make? > >> .."PHONE-EXPOSURES!" > >> > >> But doesn't have any idea about shooting good, bad or ugly photography! > >> "USING LIGHT" or any of the basics of being a photographer making > >> interesting photographs. > >> > >> I figure if I start here ON LIST at least I have photographers who may > >> have lots of experience with these magical instruments. So at least > >> I'm starting out with a good exposing machine. IE.. "A camera that is > >> also a communications instrument." > >> > >> Thank you all if and when you have a spare moment for a word of > >> experience and your wisdom! > >> > >> cheers, > >> Dr. ted :-) > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com