Just recently my colleague send me a job by taking photos of his draft using smartphone and whatapp to me. Then, he calls me to explain the draft.

I ask him why don't scan it with scanner and dropbox it to me? He mentioned about how tech savvy it is and how clear his smartphone take the picture.

You can imagine how piss off I am and how am I going to see clearly what hell thing that he takes on my small phone screen. I should do my design and snap using my smartphone and tell him to send this to his printer and print to customer next time.

This post has been edited by heinlein: Jun 9 2013, 02:21 AM

He just self-syiok'ing. He expects me to see the picture and talk to him at the same time. Just a simply snap photo but makes my work more tedious.

My point is while smartphone can take decent picture, it shouldnt replace the actual tool that disrupt the workflow.

For example, I wouldn't snap my design preview with phone camera and send it to clients and printers.

No file organization there, better stick to actual workflow. Scan, create folder and put all the relevant files in dropbox. That is the actual workflow. The pic he takes is only 816 x 459 pixels when i received it and view on my 3.7" screen. So much for a tech savvy wannabe...My eyes really roled...

Talking about overrated phone camera that people think can replace everything

Although S4 Zoom is hideous, it actually caught my attention since it's a hybrid of digital camera and mobile phone. I actually went to read its spec and other related stuff.

I'm not into the aperture race so F 3.1 ~ 6.3 is alright for me. The bokeh stuff now can be simulated with a lot of apps these days so that an okay for me and yea, I actually give a thumb up for this innovation by Samsung. Comparing with my current 16x digital zoom, I'm looking forward for the 10x optical zoom. I don't think the 10x optical zoom will turn the image quality worse than any digital zoom on the mobile phones on the market now.

This post has been edited by heinlein: Jun 13 2013, 05:08 PM

My phone camera at night is very laggy. You can feel the screen update lags which often leads to blurry photo.