David Bailey's Nokia Experiment

Recently Nokia came out with its N86. THe N86 contains one of the most advanced cell phone cameras with a megapixel sensor, large-aperture (f/2.4) Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, mechanical shutter speeds of up to 1/1000th of a second, automatic motion blur reduction and built-in flash. Nokia soon commissioned David Bailey, a world class photographer, to use their new camera phone to produce an exhibition of photographs creating "Alive At Night". The results are surprising, as the quality of the photographs is extremely high.

Bailey's opinion on technology? Well, in a recent interview he jokingly comments on Flickr saying he doesn't even know what it is. Although this may seem like he opposes technology, in reality he finds it quite useful, "To me, digital is the best thing that's happened because it's made what I do more unique," says Bailey. "Everybody else's pictures look the same." These new excellent camera phones leave consumer the questioning one thing: Will camera phones take the place of the basic camera?

(Photo credit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2009/aug/27/mobilephones-photography?picture=352212260)

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