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Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Nov 28 2003, 01:06 AM
I haven't seen a picture phone yet that has enough image quality to be useful. Max-resolution is 640x480, many are still 320x200. And the optics and component quality just aren't there to even begin to deal with low light. Outdoors in good sunlight, you'll get a reasonable pic. Indoors, if it's well lit, you might be able to make out the subject.
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You're not going to get Nikon quality pics from a cell phone lens that's a 1/4 inch wide with a 330,000 CMOS chip. Its just not possible. But if the lighting is good the quality is surprisingly nice and sharp for candid style fun pics. And that's all its designed for.
You're maxed out at 640 x 480 so its really just for web viewing, not printing out 8 x 10's or the like.
But its very handy having a built-in camera with you at all times. I was scouting around for some office space the other day and using my cell phone cam to take pics of buildings I liked and the leasing info signs so I could match the numbers to an image and not have to write it down while I was driving.
My phone stores 20 pics in the gallery and you can e-mail those to yourself as you go if you need to shoot more than that.
At the beach, snapped some candids of my son trying to body surf and getting tossed in the waves. I rarely would bring my Nikon on a ride to the ocean, so the cell cam was great and convenient to have along.