Smart Phone Cameras

As you may have noticed, smart phones have become very popular – you likely have one yourself.  It seems everywhere you look, someone has a smartphone of some variety.  Whether it’s an iPhone, an Android Phone, or a Blackberry, every phone these days has a camera .

Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “The best camera is the one that’s with you”.  In fact Chase Jarvis published a book by that name and every photo in that book was taken by an iPhone.  There are numerous camera apps and photography apps available to tap into your inner photographer.  Some apps focus on easy editing and sharing, while some apps aim more to photography itself.  Some apps such as Instagram, Fotolr Cam, Camera Awesome and Camera+, wrap all those features into one convenient package aimed at simplifying your photography experience.

While there can be a mentality that thinks you can’t get a decent picture with that crappy camera in your phone, remember you don’t need a fancy SLR camera to get great photos!  I’ve included a photo that I love! – one that my babe Shelly got with her iPhone, both the before and after version so you can see the potential for yourself!

Share your favorite phone-cam photo with us!

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That Sinking Feeling …

Ever turn on your camera and it shows NO images? You turn it off and on again. Nothing. A sick feeling starts to grow in the pit of your stomach. You haven’t transferred the images off your card in months. Your mind races and thinks back to what events were on that card. Oh boy!

It’s a doozy … Your child’s first birthday … Your great-great grandfather’s 90th birthday … A before & after home reno still in progress. The list goes on.

Many of us have been there and it’s not pretty. For those that haven’t, you think … Meh, won’t happen to me. But really it could.

I wanted to blog about a few simple things you can do to significantly lower your risk of this happening. First things first. You should regularly copy important images to your computer AND back them up (keeping a third copy off-site is also a good idea). Secondly, once you copy them over to your computer (and back them up) you should reformat your card in-camera before using it again . Why? Because when you just copy over what was deleted, there is more chance of a card error because the camera is trying to write over info instead of saving on a “clean slate”.

There are recovery programs out there, just Google and you’ll find a whole whack of them. I hear of good results, but sometimes you just can’t get those images back. Better to be safe than sorry … make a back-up!

Have you ever lost precious images or were you able to save them?

Shelly ♥