kelly_flanigan1 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Here I am testing about 6 phones; so maybe I can be a teenager again. :) It is amazing the teens concerns about skins; ring tones; text messaging a mile a minute. For shooting sports; cellphones are still abit crude. Here is SZWEZ of PeeDee going into the sin bin; held by a zebra; shot with a VGA class cellcamera. The blur at the lower left is due to the thick 1/2" plexiglass.<BR><BR><IMG SRC=http://www.ezshots.com/members/tripods/images/tripods-547.jpg><BR><BR>Here is a Hooter Girl doing "foodrunnner" duty; caught with a VGA cellcamera. <BR><BR><IMG SRC=http://www.ezshots.com/members/tripods/images/tripods-537.jpg> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 The dynamic range of the auto exposure on cellcams is crude. Many bloom the highlights; and loose the shadows; sort of like a video camera of the 1960's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Trevor; your sensor is really a tiny 288 by 319 pixel job; they bootstrap it to a huge crafty 480x640; for viewing better. This upsizing doesnt add things that dont exist :) Notice the upward re- mapping is slightly different in each axis; about 2 on the long; less on the other. Shoot some images at the natural sensor output of 288 by 319; and then upsize them by 2x as an experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 The two images I posted were shot in VGA mode; ie file is 480x640 from the camera. The actual sensor on this cam is about 1/4 VGA in area; ie less than 240x320 in size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis_couvillion Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Kelly: I was wrong... the people in your cell phone shots DO NOT appear to be having fun. Perhaps the "fun enhancement mode" is only available on high end models. BTW, are those love handles on that Hooter's Girl... or is that distortion from the camera? ;>) Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vuk_vuksanovic Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 kelly. those two shots are brilliant pieces of documentary--both scene and photo technology represented. i'll go even further with the hockey shot and say it captures the spirit of what's going on better than 99% of sports photos going around (although i'll admit it may take a canadian viewer to appreciate this). vuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Theer will be cell phones with Zeiss lenses http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B0478/Inhalt-Frame/63198C56707F6E0341256A6F002C17D3 But quite obviously the limiting factor will be the sh*tty imaging chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Future cellphone camera development? I don't know if I should be happy or sad <p> <a href="http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/paansonic_devlops_worlds_smallest_image_sensor/">http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/paansonic_devlops_worlds_smallest_image_sensor/</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chmoss Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 <a href="http://www.pbase.com/chmoss/640x480">Look at these</a> -- all taken on my Treo 600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Very good clive. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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