Yesterday I spent the day in London with some friends and a great day was had by all.  On the tube back to pick up the car I started to capture and make some images with my iPhone 5s using the KitCam app – you have to do something to pass the time.  Fun was had all around and some of the images are actually not bad at all.  However, when the images are viewed on the bigger screen suddenly what looked great on the small phone screen start to fall apart.

This got me thinking about the usual baloney that is spurted out, usually around this time of year, about what the iPhone 6 or 5z or whatever name Apple come up with for this year’s iteration.   As far as the photographic part of the iPhone, perhaps the second most important element after the Internet connection, it will always be a cheap and not that useable camera – great in certain circumstances but push it beyond its tight envelope it starts to show the cracks very quickly.  Now I love it when this happens as I feel you can use this for creative possibilities but it doesn’t make it a great camera in the conventional sense.

This doesn’t mean that the iPhone isn’t one of the most significant cameras to have ever been created – far from it.  In fact I would suggest that it, along with the Box Brownie and the first SLR camera, has changed photography in so many ways that each can be seen as epoch markers in the near 200 years of photographic development.  Of course the iPhone would be nothing if it wasn’t for the Photo Apps but none of these would have existed without the iPhone.  Don’t get me wrong I love the iPhone as a camera and some of the images I have made with my series of cameras have been some of the best images I have ever made.  It is just that as we move towards the the latest benediction giving to we unworthy and unwashed  by Apple the Internet will be slowly melted by hot air generated. Such is life.

So I’ll just continue to use my iPhone with KitCam and have a great time.  By the way the Tube is a wonderful place run an impromptu Photo Shoot – especially on a sunny day as the slightly dirty windows brilliantly filter the light and ad atmosphere.

It’s too late baby, too late….