Member Photography

[ManMachine]

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I've never owned a decent camera. The best I have ever had was the last pocket camera I purchased - A Pansonic with an 8X optical zoom.

Since mobile phones started coming equipped with cameras I've used those and right now I couldn't even tell you where my camera is.

This photo was taken with my very first android phone - the LG GT 540. That was a brain dead phone with a very limited 3 megapixel camera on board - no flash, no fancy extras. Still - amazing what you can get out of it. Look for the spider in the whole in the middle:



When I changed my phone for the HTC Sensation XE it was a night and day change in terms of camera and since then its the only one I use.

The first time I got to use it was at the car museum in Athens:



It has a quite remarkable macro facility - for a phone anyway:



The most amazing thing about it is the speed. I would never have managed to get this shot with the Panasonic. This was as single shot taken as my daughter whizzed round on a roller coaster. She is front and centre in the High school musical T-shirt:



And this is a fast action burst of 5 frames although I have no idea how it will show here:



Well it works for me. Excellent but a bit dizzying. Still 5 shots in a second is no mean feat.

Nothing pro-level - but amazing what you can do with these things.

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I did not take this photo but as I spotted the spids among your subjects I though you might like to see a cape made entirely from spider silk.