Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/01

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Subject: [Leica] the ubiquity of the iLeica & the future of photography
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:15:37 -0600
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Now that Adobe has released a version of Photoshop for the iPhone, I
think the future is inching closer by the nanosecond.

Kudos to you and John.  Nice work by each of you.

--Bob

==On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> 
wrote:
> I've lately found myself turning to the 1/4 inch camera built into my 
> iPhone more and more. Not just because of its accessibility but also 
> because of the built in sharing -- an immediacy accelerated even from that 
> which we're growing accustomed to in digital. These days we sit back after 
> shoots and review with models or family members minutes after the photo 
> was taken, but I'm finding with the phone I'm also posting them within 
> minutes of taking them. Often I'll finish up a "real" shoot with a few 
> iPhone shots. Quality? There's very little, but there's something 
> intangible that comes back as an advantage. Community maybe, the engine of 
> one's peers, and the motivation that they're doing things and you can't 
> continue sitting out the game.
>
>
> Here's a photo from the weekend ?-- I think it came out particularly well:
>
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2009/tnx-iphone1.jpg
>
>
> I suspect that as technology improves regular cameras will catch up with 
> their cellular counterparts and we'll be uploading directly from our M10's 
> and the LUG, or whatever incarnation of camera clubs there are, will 
> incorporate more real-time sharing, publication, and review. I'm not sure 
> that it's superior to the old model, but I suspect it's inevitable.
>
> Kyle
>
>
>
> (I should also mention that thanks to John Lee of the NYLUG my iPhone now 
> has much street cred: http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2009/leica-iphone.jpg)
>


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