Sunday, May 16, 2010

Camera or cameraphone?

Rob Pegoraro, Personal Technology Columnist for The Washington Post newspaper, poses the question, "Camera or cameraphone?" (in a column by the same name). In a follow-on column, Pegoraro reviews two GPS-enabled point-and-shoot digital cameras: the Panasonic DMC-ZS7; and the Samsung HZ35W.

Pegoraro clearly prefers dedicated digital cameras to the relatively low-end digital cameras featured in smartphones, while correctly conceding the superior performance of smartphone GPSRs for geotagging photos; he also seems to favor the Panasonic camera over the Samsung. As an owner of both an Apple iPhone 3G and the Panasonic DMC-ZS7, I tend to agree with the comment posted by WorstSeat: "Your best camera is the one you have." -- an idea underscored by professional photographer Chase Jarvis in his book of iPhone photography, The Best Camera Is The One That's With You.

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