Re:Why I really, really hate Instagram
by alexyoung on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @08:14AM
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I think phone cameras have been at that point for a while.
I took my iPhone 4 and digital SRL on holiday this year, and my best shots where taken with the iPhone 4 simply due to serendipity.
At first I was actually annoyed when my friends and family preferred most of the iPhone shots on Flickr, but then maybe my SRL skills aren't as good as I thought they were!
At on-screen viewing sizes of web-shared photos (currently <1MP) you are going to struggle to see the better image quality that an SLR can provide. With prints of 10x8" or larger you will start to notice lack of sharpness and chroma noise.
My Olympus digital camera from 2001 was a 4 megapixel item, flawed though megapixels are as a measure of quality, at those levels it did still matter, now my phone camera one-ups it in that department.
The problem is more, how and where do you store your photos so that you still have them, 40 years from now, which he does touch on to some extent. Somehow, I doubt Instagram will be the "system of record" for this, and for now, it's providing a service that some people find useful.