on 2013-06-18 6:13 Eric Weir wrote
Some more questions: Any thoughts about the 5 Mp vs. 8 Mp camera? If the phone is going to be used as a camera, how much memory is minimal?
i have the 5 mp, and get lots of good shots with it, but the consensus seems to be that the 8 mp camera is a big step up; it is only about 1/3 more linear resolution, but it has better optics and better low-light performance, and its aperture is f/2.4 instead of f/2.8; these are reasonable specs, but the sensor is smaller than those in better point & shoots, and the lens is fixed at a moderate wide angle, so there's definitely some trade-off between phonecam and point & shoot
as for memory, i have 16GB in my iPhone 4, and 1361 photos are currently taking 2GB; the 8 mp photos would probably be a little under twice the size (they are supposedly sharper, so JPEG compression would squeeze them less)
I imagine a phone with a camera could be the only device I would need to take. If I took my ist* DS I need something to off-load images to and to get selections of them up on the web. That would probably have to be my notebook. I'm leery of taking it, though it's compact and light weight.
any smartphone/iPod Touch camera has the advantage of easy uploads when wifi is available (you probably don't want to watch your cellular data use while traveling) and you can process & sort your images onboard; many will automatically geotag your photos; with iOS devices, if someone has a Mac (or an Apple TV) it's rather simple to Airplay the images onto a bigger screen
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