Seriously! I think cell phone cameras are great. Anything that allows a person to take a photo at any time (regardless of quality) is another opportunity for someone to appreciate photography. There are professional photographers who shoot with only point-and-shoot cameras, so why not cell phone cameras?

At this point I would like to assure potential clients that we will NOT be taking their pictures with cell phones. We will in fact be keeping our big fancy cameras and awesome lenses. Appreciating cameras and photography of all types is simply what we do.

Anyway. I’m prattling on about cell phones because I just got a new one. The Motorola ZN5 is a nice little candybar-format phone (I hate flips) that just happens to have a 5 megapixel camera on the back, with optics by Carl Zeiss, software by Kodak, and a real xenon flash. Not too shabby, and definitely a point-and-shoot replacement for me.

In addition, the phone bit works better than my last phone (which did NOT have a fancy camera), and the music player sounds better than my iPod. Hooray for consolidation, and for 2 fewer things to lug around in my already overloaded pockets!

Here are some shots I took with it while on a walk this afternoon:

You’re totally jealous, I can tell.