On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:02:01AM -0700, Keith Whaley wrote: > Bob Sullivan wrote: > >Steve, > >I tracked down the WSJ article and read it yesterday. > >Stat's said the P&S digital market was in decline, > >suffering from phones getting better or 'good enough'. > >Samsung seems to be trying to carve out a new niche, > >something between phones and digital SLR's. > >Well good luck with that!!! > >Regards, Bob S. > > I saw an ad yesterday, from one of the computer stores, that touted > an 8X telephoto for a cell phone, complete with table top tripod. > Amazing... > Of course, it almost begs the question, why? > I mean, a camera in a cell phone...that's one thing. It doesn't harm > the form factor nor have an affect on the use of the phone. Just an > added convenience. > But a telephoto for your cell phone? Might as well have a small zoom > camera for all the room the cell + tele takes up. > Just a bit much, for all of me.
I think you're missing one rather important point. With the adapter, any image you capture is already in your gallery on your phone, just like any other image. So you can show it to your friends/email it to grandma/upload it to your facebook page without having to learn yet another set of buttons to push, or playing with those fiddly little memory cards. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
