Ditch The Camera, Your Phone Roxx!

My friend betabug posted a nice review of a camera he recently bought from a department store (yes! your eyes are just fine...). He used to be a photographer and I guess he knows what he is talking about as much as a Polish plumber knows what a waterpipe is.

Before getting this camera, betabug used to take pictures with his phone. wildweasel, a fellow OpenBSD developer and a friend of both of us, used to complain about the "sucky" nature of those pictures, as betabug clearly states in his review:

but since wildweasel has burned a hole in my ears whining about my lousy phone camera pix, I had a look at the digicams.


Well, truth is ... I prefer the "sucky" phone pictures or more exactly the Photoshopped ones!

Here is a picture shot by the new camera:

Well, it's ... normal.

And here is a picture shot by the phone: (and photoshopped)


And another one:


Feel the strange, hazy, verging on the eery atmosphere of these pictures? It's like they have been shot in another space-time continuum. Give betabug a crappy phone camera, he'll produce true art (I really like those pictures a lot), give him a digicam he'll turn into your normal guy taking normal pictures in a normal World.

Phone pictures produce real emotions to their viewer. wildweasel hates them, I love them. The new camera pictures produce almost none, save for a *yawn* ;-)

Do you want betabug's phone-shot pictures back? Then sign the online petition I set up. The more signatures, the better.