SightPhoto Blog

Hugh Symonds sends along notice of his website (www.hupix.net) which features a portfolio of nature images -- studies of water and leaves -- "created using Sharp GX20 mobile phone." These images give a good name to cellphone cameras, devices that were initially portrayed as being for geeks who wanted to sneak photos of babes. The market will determine whether this particular convergence make sense or not, but certainly the quality of the photos cellphone cameras can take is getting better all the time.

Soon, you'll have to expect that anyone wielding a phone also has a camera, and it seems those in authority haven't quite figured out how to deal with this phenomenon. The International Herald Tribune had an interesting story recently "The digital world crosses a forbidden line" which said that despite a prohibition on photography as Pope John II's body lay in state in St. Peter's Basilica, many of the Italian "cellulare" snapped photos of the occasion using their cellphones. One commentator said this was the modern equivalent of past pilgrims, who might have taken away a piece of cloth from a saint's body. Interesting to see if these digital relics last as long as a treasured square of cotton.