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Anonymous
Is it possible to take good pictures with a camera phone? Any tips?
(I'm unable to afford a digital camera for the moment, so I'm stuck with this).

Picture very related.
>> Anonymous
yes, You need
Lots of light, (OUTDOORS + SUNNY)
Don't point the camera at a light source (the sun)
And make sure what your taking a pic of is interesting, something that will stand out, rather than just a cool looking bush while 90% of the rest of the pic sucks.
>> Anonymous
Sell it and buy a 'camera'.
>> Anonymous
That phone has a very intrusive noise reduction, so no, to take a good picture is almost impossible.
>> Anonymous
>>46999
Taking a good picture is possible with anything.

What you mean to say is that it would be very difficult and that this camera phone is unsuited for low-light photography, beyond the general unsuitedness of cameraphones.
>> Anonymous
>>46959
> with a camera phone?
Of course it is! Skilled people have taken much better photos with their camera phones then I have with my DSLR.
http://flickr.com/groups/cameraphone/
http://flickr.com/groups/cellphone_photography/

> Any tips?
Read a book about photography. Take photos and analyze them. Enjoy! There's a very small difference between SLR and cellphone, everything still applies - lighting, perspective, rule of thirds, golden triangle, leading lines and curves..
>> ac
Related question: Are there any camera phones that aren't complete shit optically? Don't need something as good as my SLR, but something as good as my old one megapixel Kodak would be nice...
>> Anonymous
>>47054
Look at sony ericsson phones.
>> Anonymous
>>47080
>>47054

Look at the sony K series phones. The others are rubbish. I have a w810i with a "2MP" camera which is just absolute garbage. The phone itself is great but the camera might as well not even be there. Though I have read about a non-standard firmware that you can flash with that gives a noticeable improvement but I haven't tried it yet.
>> Anonymous
>>46959

Lots of sun lighting the subject up and never take a shot when the sun is behind. Other than that, buy a camera.
>> Anonymous
What if it's winter? :(
>> Anonymous
>>47360
Oh, OH! I KNOW!!1 ..it's cold ..right?
>> Anonymous
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>>47369
That depends on the location, of course. And I'm not just talkin in- or outdoors. ;)

>>46959
On the case of camera phones: My Palm Treo 680 came with a VGA (0.3MP) camera I hadn't even noticed when buying the thing, that nonetheless owned the hell out of a friends 2MP camera phone (not sure what make/model). Of course 0.3MP is crap, even with good optics and lighting, but I'm just saying you have to see samples before buying anything.

Sample pic was taken on a VERY cloudy day, but I don't have any better sample at the moment (and it's dark as hell out right now). The pics of the Treo 680 actually respond suprisingly well to post-processing (USM, etc.).
>> Anonymous
>>47437
I wonder if I shouldn't have saged this, after all. I guess not. >_<
>> Anonymous
>>47099
I like the pictures my w810i takes. They're sufficient.
>> Anonymous
My friend has a sony ericson mp3 phone. I forget the model number, but it takes 'em well. I suggest that one. Plus it's cool.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
I had a sony 600i, takes pretty decent photos for a 1.3M (remember when that was what 35mm camera replacements were?) but the 2M on my samsung is pretty shit compared to it (D800 flip phone)

Generally Sony or Nokia have pretty decent optics (Nokia use the same lenses as sony on their N series iirc) so you can point n shoot quite well.
>> Anonymous
I love how zeiss lenses are being offered on everything now. I laughed at the p&s bargain sony's with "optics by carl zeiss" but now a nokia PHONE?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA