Having spent a week in Montreal on vacation, it was interesting that I didn’t use a digital camera.
It didn’t mean I didn’t take any photographs; it just that they weren’t taken with the Casio XSlim camera that was left at home. Instead, I took a few hundred photographs using my iPhone, as well as an iPhone 3G S borrowed from Rogers.
The biggest consideration in using the iPhone vs. a digital camera was convenience; it was easier to use a single device, especially while moving around seeing the sites.
Of course, the iPhone comes with a 2MB camera so the photo quality isn’t the best but when you’re mostly taking photos that could turn into 4″ x 6″ prints, 2MB is good enough. For what it’s worth, the 3G S is a better with a 3MB camera and a user-friendly video camera .
More: TechCrunch has a post on how Apple is adding video to the iPod, which will have a huge impact on the video camera market.
The key for me is having it with you. If I owned a digital camera I wouldn’t ever have it with me when I wanted it at the spur of the moment. My iPhone? It’s with me everywhere, making it more useful as a camera than a digital camera would ever be.
I dunno. I’ll admit that it pains me not to have a camera on either my iPod Touch or my BB 8700 – but only for those “holy crap, look at that idiot with a hood scoop on his Honda Civic” moments…
For anything that I would want to keep/print (especially anything with my kids), 2 or 3 megapixel just doesn’t cut it. Our new Samsung NV100HD takes 14Mp photos (overkill) and unlimited HD video – and it’s no bigger than my BB – for under $300.
The idiom “Jack of all trades, master of none” comes to mind as feature-creep expands in my electronic devices.
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