Camera

Nokia N8 helps win film crew a dream trip to New York

February 1, 2012
By Tom Manners

The Nokia N8 is more than just a smartphone; it’s also an advanced digital camera. This is how Brett Gieseke and Barry Lottering used these capabilities to get to New York.

For almost as long as we’ve been using mobile handsets, consumers around the world have harnessed this technology to capture their daily lives in photos, [...]

It’s not all about size…

November 11, 2011
By Hollie Hepburn

…it’s what you do with it.
Truer words have never been spoken. But what are they doing on a technology blog? We want to shed some light on some popular myths and assumptions about what makes a good camera on a smartphone.
Cameras on mobile devices are usually used to take family vacation shots, moments from concerts, [...]

Teach me the ways, Grandmaster Nokia

November 26, 2010
By Hollie Hepburn

School is almost out for 2010, but your classes have just begun
Art was never my strong point at school, and I stuck to the Journalism side of a B.A degree at varsity, but photography has always interested me. While I’m the first to admit that I don’t have a natural creative flair for seeing the [...]

Taking history – the joy of phone cameras

July 1, 2010
By Donovan Jackson

Certain images are forever branded into people’s memories. The photo of the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in 1945. The earthrise captured by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders in 1968 . And locally, the picture of Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying a mortally wounded Hector Pieterson during the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
These images are a [...]