DaveOZ wrote:I have to say again, as an amateur photographer I would take my iPhone. I have the new 4S and the photos are very good, so is the video. Photos can be directly loaded to your blog or twitter which means you don't need a lapdog either. I use a D700 with a 14-24 F2.8 for landscapes and there is no way I'm going to carry that on a bike.
The cameras mentioned on here are great little cameras too but I just don't see the need to carry extra crap like chargers and computers when you'll be taking a phone anyway.
Have a look on Flickr for photos from the new iPhone.
Just my opinion. Really depends on personal use for the photos.
I freed myself from the tyranny of the SLR many years ago, and won't be going back.
Phone cameras may be fine if you only want to capture images for the web. If you want to do more than that, then the inadequacies of the lens will soon become obvious. It's a mistake to equate resolution(size) with quality, but a common one when phone cameras are discussed. That said, I have taken the odd picture with my iPhone, on the basis that when the moment arises, any picture is better than no picture.
I carry a computer anyway to edit my journals, so using a phone camera would not spare me that. The camera charger uses the same cord as the computer charger, is a little larger than a matchbox and weighs almost nothing, so it's no inconvenience to carry. The computer has an SD card slot, and no camera interface cable is required.
And now my camera photos are available on my iCloud Photostream and accessable to all the computers on my network within moments of capture by using an
Eye-Fi SD card synced with my iPhone 4.