The power of cameraphones
BlackBerry , Guest Post , Smartphone 0
Not so long ago, mobile phones were used
for making phone calls, or sending text messages. Later, you could buy mobile
phones with an inbuilt camera, but it served more as a novelty, and any more
serious photography than a blurry shot of your friends required a separate
digital camera, purchased for more money than you would have liked to have
spent, and forgotten at home whenever anything surprising or picture-worthy
happened.
Now, mobile phones come with an inbuilt,
high-quality camera. They're more portable than digital cameras. and you can
upload your photos to the Internet with ease. One of the first affordable
digital cameras was the Kodak DC40, released in 1996, which came with just a
third of a megapixel. Now, popular smartphones like the iPhone 4S or the BlackBerry
Bold 9790 pack 8 megapixels, along with a host of additional features like sophisticated flash
mechanisms, special lenses and artistic photo editing software. What's more,
the iPhone or BlackBerry
Bold price is significantly less than you would have paid for the digital
camera alone all those years ago.
It's not just photos of our pets or
children, either. Along with social media, cameraphone pictures have played a
major role in the transmission of news stories such as the Arab Spring. Police
brutality captured on film by Egyptian social media activists caused millions of
protestors to take to the streets to demand the end of dictatorial regimes.
Furthermore, a recent study from the
Netherlands showed that cameraphones can play a vital role in medical
diagnostics, especially in remote or rural areas. The study by Coosje Tuijn of
the Royal Tropical Institute showed that a two megapixel camera can capture
clear microscopy images that could be sent to a website for analysis by a
specialist. The specialist could then email or SMS feedback back to the
patient. "Such technological advances could improve diagnosis in
peripheral health settings by empowering under-educated and insufficiently
experienced health care and laboratory workers to meet quality standards,"
concluded Tuijn.
The increasing accessibility, versatility
and sharability of mobile photography indicates that this is only the tip of
the iceberg of what we can expect from cameraphones, and the coming months and
years will only continue to demonstrate their power.
Sources:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/IndustryTrends/Camera-phones-can-play-vital-role-in-diagnostics/SP-Article1-782745.aspx
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