Camera Phone Reviews

DP Expert has a great post on an Australian photographer (Laurie Davis) who recently toured Europe with his Sony Ericsson K750i and K700i. He took some stunning shots while away and used his phones almost like a diary - creating video and audio clips as well as using it as a photocopier...

'The K750i is a veritable Swiss army pocket knife of a mobile phone, incorporating camera, video (Davis took 150 video clips on his travels, including a clip of a busking orchestra in the Paris Metro that he says he would not otherwise have been able to capture), voice recorder, FM radio and MP3 player. He uses all the functions and says that the phone is now his go-everywhere visual and audio diary. He even uses it as a portable photocopier to snap pages from books and magazines when he needs to record them. The K750i has the facility for sending photos from one phone camera to another and for emailing image files once the multimedia service has been set up.

Davis carried the optional accessory flash unit that plugs into the multi-function socket that serves as battery charger and file transfer port and took some spectacular flash lit shots that he says he would not otherwise have been able to take. He uses a Bluetooth wireless connector to transfer the pictures from the camera memory card to his Mac laptop and he charges the phone battery every night via the USB connector. Charge time straight from the mains socket is about 3 hours from flat to fully charged and via the USB connector charge time is about 6 hours.'

See some of the 1000 pictures that Laurie shot while away on his phones at his three galleries. He has two for the Sony Ericsson K750i here and here as well one for the K700i which he used to experiment with the solarization function here.