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I was actually relieved when the author came around to my own experience: camera phones are 90% there, but being in that 10% space with only a phone is endlessl
by aimor 6y ago
I was actually relieved when the author came around to my own experience: camera phones are 90% there, but being in that 10% space with only a phone is endlessly frustrating.
Beyond quality, I also dislike how camera phones have cheapened photos. Decades ago I actively thought this wouldn't be a problem, but now it's very apparent that it is: People take thousands of photos and don't look at them.
Why? I think it's too many photos for people to comfortably curate. 4 rolls of film was manageable, and with limited space in the album (and patience for the task), the best ones got picked out and the rest filed away in a shoebox. Today? I've been there, watching patiently, as someone scrolls though their phone "album", skipping over dozens of identical images to get to the next good one. Unlimited space gives even the most fat fingered "photo burst" prone grandparent reason to never delete anything. It's so bad that now the phone AI has taken over the task of "organizing". It's a terrible combination. Maybe the phones will learn to create albums just from the good photos, but so far I'm not impressed.
- jezclaremurugan 6y agoAgree on the cheapening part - but I really love the reminders on my phone - 5yrs ago or 3yrs ago of simple everyday events - cheap photos but fond memories.. photos that probably would not have been taken with an actual camera.
- ValentineC 6y ago> Beyond quality, I also dislike how camera phones have cheapened photos. I don't think this is about camera phones, but digital cameras. I find myself curating more photos immediately when they're taken with my iPhone — while leaving photos in my DSLR/M43 cameras for future curation, because their LCD screens are tiny.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoCuration means deleting things too. And I do a lot of that. Not only does it make it much easier to find stuff, but I can keep my entire image collection on an SD card in my phone (around 60 GB of photos over the last 10 years). I frequently browse through my photo collection, and I love that it's all local. There's no point keeping that blurry photo of a crappy sunset, or 25 near-identical copies of the same thing. I delete ruthlessly, and keep 1-3 photos of each subject. Importantly, when I look back at my photos, the ones I'm most interested in are the ones with people in them, especially after a sibling was killed in an accident. I keep nearly all of those (except near duplicates). So although I take lots of photos of things, I don't care that much about them, and only keep the good ones.