Not quite a camera…
Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 in: London
… but my phone, it turns out, has an internal camera. As, in fact, does the phone of my friend, with whom I found myself crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge on one of those evenings when London really does its thing. I sometimes get asked what I have in common with my characters, especially narrators like Matthew Swift. There are a number of very obvious things I don’t have in common. I’m not a) male b) magical or c) semi-possessed/psychotic. But we do have something in common… we both like Thai food, and both love the river. When tired, angry or upset, the river is the guaranteed place in all the city that will calm me down.
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Nice pics, Kate. People are always dissing the camera on the iPhone, but it takes perfectly reasonable photos, and the newer one has a better camera than mine. Someone wrote: ‘it’s not the camera you have, it’s the camera you have with you’, and that’s so true. Still, more megapixels never hurts…
I’m always forgetting to carry my little compact camera around, so the phone is just the thing for snapshots, like some interesting grafitti or the like. Time for another of your photo quizzes, methinks.
AdrianHMarch 12, 2010
Hi Kate, since your camera’s sad demise, at some point you’ll obviously be looking for a new one, so can I suggest the new Panasonic Lumix TZ-10. I’ve got an earlier TZ-3, and it takes marvellous photos, I guess I’ve taken thousand over the last three or four years since I bought it. Anyway, I suggest it because it has GPS, so you can geotag your photos and link them to GoogleMaps, so that it’s possible to see exactly where the photo was taken. Of course, if you do another photo quiz that function would need to be turned off…
March 10, 2010