Having been stung by accusations that I didn't know what I was talking about when I wrote about cellphonography recently (all of which were, however, true), I have dutifully been making an effort to shoot more, and more seriously, with my state-of-the-art* iPhone 4s. I shot this as I waited for my spring rolls to appear at the local Asian Fusion tonight.
One version of the future is that ILCs as they are now known will have virtually disappeared in 12 or 15 years, as computational photography synergizes with Moore's Law to create smartphones that take infinitely croppable pictures of made sharper by camera shake and which allow you to choose exposure and point of focus after the fact. I have to say I think it's possible. The market for smartphones is so vast, far greater than anything photography has known in the past.
But if it's true, then my State-of-the-Art* iPhone 4s (last one announced before the death of the great Jobs, R.I.P. and He Will Be Missed) is roughly equivalent, in digital/smartphone terms, to what a Kodak Brownie camera was in the 1940s. What I mean is, it's pretty primitive compared to the postulated future.
I think I'll stick with my antidiluvian and soon-to-be-antiquated ILCs anyway. But at least I've had a little experience with iPhonography now, and know how to open the camera without typing the passcode and how to add a snap to a text. As my good self gets dragged, not kicking and screaming, but nodding and smiling, into the twenty-teens.
Mike
*for 2011
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