Hi!

Iīm looking for a small camera, which would allow me to take pictures and attache voice notes to the picture. The reason for this is scouting locations. I donīt want to lug a heavy DSLR around for this, a compact camera would be sufficient camerawise, but it would be very important to attach notices with the included microphones. The same function a 1D has (microphonewise), but in a small package.
So I could photography all the rooms of a house and attach information to each photo.

Ok, I have been thinking about this myself and this may be a solution or joke, you decide. Yesterday, I just received my new cell phone which is a Samsung SGH-T919 or T-Mobile Behold. It has a 5MP camera built in and the phone itself is a little smaller than an iPhone yet still offers intenet, email blah blah blah... I usually dismiss the cameras in these cell phones as being utter crap. Today I was out just testing it to see how crappy it was and to my surprise I found it capable of very decent 8x10 prints! Here is the thing, when you take a picture, just after the photo is taken there is a button to press to add voice annotations to b the picture! It works pretty good too. I don't know if there is any time constraint and what it might be. This phone was under $200 and easily surpasses some of the small P&S digital's from only a few years back or so. Technology is amazing! Below is an example of a jpeg, out of camera and unaltered.

That is one of the best cell phone shots I have seen.

Question for you though. Is it me or do the two green leaves in the upper right hand corner seem more in focus than the rest of the image?

PhotoMaximum wrote:
That is one of the best cell phone shots I have seen.

Question for you though. Is it me or do the two green leaves in the upper right hand corner seem more in focus than the rest of the image?


The depth of field is so huge with these tiny sensor cell phone cameras that everything in that photo is in focus. The difference is that those two green leaves are closer to the camera so appear sharper and more resolved.

That explains it. It just caught my eye: you usually don't expect to see a tiny part of the subject appearing more in focus/sharper in the corners than the rest of the image.