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Subject: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION?????????
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:44:52 -0400
References: <002601cd7daa$9bdfcc20$d39f6460$@cox.net> <CC55C8CE.22789%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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 :-)
> >>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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