The Camera industry is oging down to the cell phones!

[jporter12]

This should be good for a laugh:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060321/tc_nm/nokia_multimedia_dc

They're basically saying that cell phones are taing over the market. Yeah, sure..... Umm hummmm....

[Andy_T]

You are right, it's pretty funny.

Konica Minolta withdrawing (from what?) and Agfa closing down its photography division is 'the end of the photography market' :lol: (according to what a Nokia executive told the Financial times :wink: )

Best regards,
Andy

[zacker]

yeah, did you hear? Nokia is coming out with a 12 MP phone cam, it uses canon "L" optics, takes photos in RAW and JPEG, uses a SD and CF card, can shoot 3 HRS of video and save it on its built in 200GB hard drive, has another for Music, and an FM tuner and Sirius satalite built in.. the best part? it can control the lighting in your house, open your garage door from two blocks away and can even act as a HAM radio.. all in a package the size of a book of matches...And, its got an attached 24KT solid gold ring so you can either hang it from key chain or wear it like a necklace.. oh and its got a 500,000,oo candle power spot light that runs on the earths rotational spin so it never runs out of power.Plus, for a small amount of $$, you can get the optional add-on that lets you destroy the world with the push of a button!
Pretty slick huh?
lol
-zacker-

[NickSimcheck]

Blah, if it doesn't even have the new 1.22 jigga-watt flux-kapasator...I'm not intrested.

[jporter12]

Blah, if it doesn't even have the new 1.22 jigga-watt flux-kapasator...I'm not intrested.

Time travel from a cell phone? :) I'm in! Where do I sign up?!?!?!

I figured this would get a couple good replies, both serious and sarcastic. (I enjoy the sarcasm that some of you use in threads such as this).

Realistically though, I have a cell phone withj a stupid camera in it, as do many people I know. Not 1 of them actually uses the pictures for anything other than use on their phones. Myself, I refuse to pay the addition fee to have the "Picture Mail" so that I can send them to myself. I was thinking about getting a USB cable for my phone, but it's abviously not been high enough on the priorities list to do so! Lately, better glass for my soon-to-be-extinct Canon DSLR has been more of a priority.

[jporter12]

Oh, and in Back to the Future 4, the deloreon is powered by a cell phone, so all you have to do is "Phone Home" LOL

[dave h]

But the police will be issued with 10 Megapixel cameraphones that have guilt in gatso cameras.

And they still won't be able to solve propper crime :p

P.S. I thought it was Gigawatt not Jigga watt

[jporter12]

P.S. I thought it was Gigawatt not Jigga watt

Not in Back to the Future! I don't know how many watts a jiggawatt is though, but most likely a lot more than a gigawatt! (Going to double check this in a little while by watching the movie!)

[Hellashot]

Very funny. Too bad Nokia makes "cameras" that are often given away for free. You get what you pay for!

Devices are "trying" to get to what people want them - a handheld computer capable of everything a desktop computer can do. The ideal end would be to have glasses to wear that will be your computer screen to solve the "small screen" problem of handheld devices with eye control for your mouse.

[Choderboy]

You are right, it's pretty funny.

Konica Minolta withdrawing (from what?) and Agfa closing down its photography division is 'the end of the photography market' :lol: (according to what a Nokia executive told the Financial times :wink: )

Best regards,
Andy

Am I missing the sarcasm here ? (I've done it before!) - Konica Minolta have "withdrawn" from photography.

[ATBphotography]

One thing i can't understand about the new camera phones (appart from their existance :D) is why on earth do they have auto focus- I was asked by a friend to take a picture of him and his girlfriend on his new phone and it took about half an hour for the thing to "focus" and in the end everything in the entire picture was in focus anyway- why not have a fixed focus "lens" and save time and money.

+ from what i've heard Dave, Konica minolta have withdrawn from the DSLR market and have sold their DSLR technologie to sony who have used it for their new alpha series.

[SHANGHAi]

yeah, did you hear? Nokia is coming out with a 12 MP phone cam, it uses canon "L" optics, takes photos in RAW and JPEG, uses a SD and CF card, can shoot 3 HRS of video and save it on its built in 200GB hard drive, has another for Music, and an FM tuner and Sirius satalite built in.. the best part? it can control the lighting in your house, open your garage door from two blocks away and can even act as a HAM radio.. all in a package the size of a book of matches...And, its got an attached 24KT solid gold ring so you can either hang it from key chain or wear it like a necklace.. oh and its got a 500,000,oo candle power spot light that runs on the earths rotational spin so it never runs out of power.Plus, for a small amount of $$, you can get the optional add-on that lets you destroy the world with the push of a button!
Pretty slick huh?
lol
-zacker-

Ugh, call me gullible but I actually believed the first few lines until my common sense kicked in.

I've been at work too long. I need to get out lol.