Wallace Koopmans Artlog

I know the arguments for cell phone cameras and I’ve had my own different ones going back to their sub megapixel inception. (That’s a full size 640×480  image from a cell phone about 12 years ago)

I’ve seen how far they’ve advanced and taken thousands of images with different ones myself but other than being convenient I have found them to be pretty lacking in quality. They may very well be good enough for almost everything you see on a screen but if you want something with a little more control or some focal length choice they can’t compete with point and shoots or something as versatile as the Pentax Q system. I’m personally willing to carry the extra little bit of weight and bulk so that I can capture images as I wish rather than it being dictated by the technology.  My own cell phone camera use peaked several years ago with my mosaic ‘Not My Memory’ which is an ongoing project where as time goes on and I forget the context of individual images I will fade them to black.  After that my cell phone picture taking dropped to near irrelevance.

I recognize the convenience of having the camera the processing and the ability to share an image all in one device and they really are good enough for almost everything in that vein but I just don’t enjoy using them as much as a camera with all its ergonomics focused on capturing images, don’t even get my started about the joy of shooting film.  So while the world moves on and adjusts their expectations to accept smart phone images as the new norm I will use my Q7 and film for my snapshots.  Until I get a new phone of course then I will be all over that 🙂

Here is a gallery of images taken with the Pentax Q7 and various lenses some of them could have easily been taken with a cell phone but of course some not.