Comments on: To the London Transport Museum and a Flickr meet http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/ Radio, broadcasting, websites, and beer. Possibly. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: martin http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32211 martin Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:24:02 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32211 I'm quite happy having a cameraphone as my only camera - provided you know the limitations of it, a well-framed shot (or even some bad ones) can be polished up rather nicely in iPhoto. A chap I worked with started a monthly photo competition; most of the people involved use fancy DSLRs, and so they nearly disqualified me out of spite after I told them that I shot <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/teflon/311453979/">this photo</a> with a Sony Ericsson k750i. I’m quite happy having a cameraphone as my only camera - provided you know the limitations of it, a well-framed shot (or even some bad ones) can be polished up rather nicely in iPhoto.

A chap I worked with started a monthly photo competition; most of the people involved use fancy DSLRs, and so they nearly disqualified me out of spite after I told them that I shot this photo with a Sony Ericsson k750i.

]]> By: Annie Mole http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32209 Annie Mole Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:59:19 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32209 Hi James - you're most welcome - it was a pleasure to meet those of you I hadn't met & the meet my old Flickr & blogging mates again. It was nice to be able to invite Flickroonies and bloggers who were already members of the London Tube Flickr group and everyone who was there had that one thing in common, so I kind of hoped you'd all get along. Kradlum's comment is interesting and I know that Nikki shares it. I was shocked to learn on Sunday that the first time she used Flickr was when we set up a group for the Tube Relief Challenge and she was actually one of the first people on that day to send me a picture from the day to upload to the group http://www.flickr.com/groups/tuberelief/ . Nice that she's been a fan of Flickr ever since then. Hi James - you’re most welcome - it was a pleasure to meet those of you I hadn’t met & the meet my old Flickr & blogging mates again. It was nice to be able to invite Flickroonies and bloggers who were already members of the London Tube Flickr group and everyone who was there had that one thing in common, so I kind of hoped you’d all get along.

Kradlum’s comment is interesting and I know that Nikki shares it. I was shocked to learn on Sunday that the first time she used Flickr was when we set up a group for the Tube Relief Challenge and she was actually one of the first people on that day to send me a picture from the day to upload to the group http://www.flickr.com/groups/tuberelief/ . Nice that she’s been a fan of Flickr ever since then.

]]> By: Lloyd Davis http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32166 Lloyd Davis Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:34:52 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32166 James, I'm sorry I had my back to you in the cafe and didn't get to speak to you properly - I should have liked to have made contact face-to-face :) No doubt there'll be other opportunities... James, I’m sorry I had my back to you in the cafe and didn’t get to speak to you properly - I should have liked to have made contact face-to-face :)

No doubt there’ll be other opportunities…

]]> By: Jag http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32129 Jag Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:07:39 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/02/17/to-the-london-transport-museum-and-a-flickr-meet/#comment-32129 Cameraphone "worse" !!!! :-) I would say "simple" and "less". My use of my mobile phone as camera has been a long term experiment to test this format as the mainstream "snapping" device, and I really do believe it is getting there. Increasingly the mobile phone is becoming the "main" camera for many people, and I can see the market for snap cameras being increasingly squeezed by phones as the quality and capability get better. Plus, arguably you get a more interesting picture with the mobile because the pictures are more likely to be spontaneous than premeditated. My belief is that, over time, mainstream life will be captured on mobile phones and only "specialist" photography will be undertaken on dedicated cameras. Also, mobile phone photography (because of it's "moment" nature) will spawn a thriving visual art culture too. See http://route79.org/journal/?p=157 for more thoughts on this. Cameraphone “worse” !!!! :-)
I would say “simple” and “less”. My use of my mobile phone as camera has been a long term experiment to test this format as the mainstream “snapping” device, and I really do believe it is getting there. Increasingly the mobile phone is becoming the “main” camera for many people, and I can see the market for snap cameras being increasingly squeezed by phones as the quality and capability get better. Plus, arguably you get a more interesting picture with the mobile because the pictures are more likely to be spontaneous than premeditated. My belief is that, over time, mainstream life will be captured on mobile phones and only “specialist” photography will be undertaken on dedicated cameras. Also, mobile phone photography (because of it’s “moment” nature) will spawn a thriving visual art culture too. See http://route79.org/journal/?p=157 for more thoughts on this.

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