I've posted pictures on Flickr.
And some panoramas on Photosynth
This trip was an experiment for me, the first major trip in a long time where I didn't take a DSLR with a large lens. My DSLR's lens broke in the middle of the Nicaragua & Costa Rica trip, so I finished out that one with just the iPhone's camera, but for this trip, I set out with just the iPhone from the beginning.
There were definitely positive things:
- it's liberating to not have to carry a camera bag and to not have something bulky strapped to me
- it's easy to share images quickly with the iPhone
- the Panorama modes are quite useful for landscapes and vertical shots
- image quality is quite good for shots that don't need zooming/cropping
- images are geotagged and have correct timestamps
But there were some big negatives:
- lack of optical zoom means that zooming on the phone is just throwing away pixels. The resulting images generally look bad
- it discourages me from framing the photo properly, since I know I'm going to have to crop in post
- I found I couldn't isolate things like architectural details that I would normally photograph
- the phone was in use enough that I had to use a battery pack for it
I think that for my next trip, I'll get a pocketable camera with a zoom lens.
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