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Camera Phone Tips
Darren writes "It is getting hard to find a cell phone WITHOUT a camera in it - as a result millions are flooding the internet through moblogs with camera phone images - many of which are poor quality.
I'm sick of seeing poor quality camera phone images being posted to moblogs and so have collected a series of camera phone tips and links that will hopefully help us all improve our camera phone images."
Don't run your website from your camera phone..?
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So you're the guy who took those prisoner abuse photos! How did you get such good resolution from a phone camera?
Here's my guide for taking good quality pictures:
1) Find a subject in a well lit location
2) As far as subjects go, the shorter the skirt the better
3) Without acting too suspsicously, get as close as you can to your subject.
4) Discreetly aim the lens perpendicular to the floor level and directly between the legs
5) Snap!
Escalators can be a very handy tool.
Oh wait, you mean people take normal pictures with these things?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
... how many of those pics seem to be of a person's ear?
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even an switched off cell phone can be tapped
Yeah? but I bet they'll be listening in for ages before they hear anything interesting...
Hey check out this photo of a guy I hit cause I was too busy talking on my cell phone. Man camera phones are cool.
-ZiN-
Apparently, one of the research scientists working at a secured site. When he came to the gate and was inspected, they saw his beeper, and asked if it was a radio device. Now, on this site, beepers were allowed, and by "radio device," they really meant any kind of broadcasting or recording device. But being a scientist, he said, "Yes." And it got confiscated. He tried to reason with them, and explained how a beeper worked, but they said it was not allowed on site.
So after he passed through the gate, he took out his ballpoint pen and said into it with a stage whisper, "They got the radio device!"
The guards were not amused and detained him for several hours until some supervisors and management got it sorted out.
Nokia has announced that it will launch a new line of cell 'phones' that offer text messaging, web browsing, and digital photos, and walkie-talkie voice features. The traditional telephone voice mode feature will no longer be supported.
A Nokia spokesperson stated, "Our marketting department has determined that using cell phones like, well, a 'phone' is something that our target demographic's grandmothers would use. Today's generation is much more inclined to broadcast poor quality digital photos of the dog stuck in the sewer grate, text their buddy lists, and generally annoy passers-by with the 'beep-speak-beep' of walkie-talkie conversations."
I got in on this a few months ago. I was suddenly struck by the simplistic charm of being able to share anything you see, any time you want, with 6 billion captivated viewers.
So I fired up the old web-o-matic and cranked out an interface to allow me to upload pics and blogs with minimal effort. Bingo! Time to let the hits roll in...
Shortly after putting it on the site, I realised that nothing remotely interesting happened in my life that was worth uploading and sharing with the world.
I never came face to face with a yeti. Never saw a UFO. Never witnessed a daring bank heist. Never so much as saw a woodland animal doing a cute thing with a peice of bread.
I'm now contemplating taking the moblog bit off, because it only serves to highlight to myself how deeply unexciting my life is.
Bah!
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While it may sound funny, I actually see quite a few people doing this, or trying to do this, in the malls around here. It's usually pretty obvious; well at least not to the girls, but to everyone else you look like a jackass holding your phone down low then giggling like a little kid.
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Did you ever see Thunderbirds? Thunderbird One had a camera detector that alerted Scott whenever anyone tried to take a picture of Thunderbird technology. That's what we need... Where's Brains?
Baz
Wait until you hear my music! ;-P