[djmcmath]

I've never understood the camera phone phenomenon. Perhaps my background is a little odd -- I'm a film-based photographer from way back. I still do that business with silver-halides like Ansel Adams talks about in The Camera, The Negative, and The Print. I shoot with a 4x5 monorail camera and can produce wall-sized prints with no visible grain. My negatives will withstand the test of time. I keep a bookshelf specifically for my archival binders of film.

The camera phone phenomenon seems to directly counter the film tradition. Nobody ever makes prints from the camera phone. Nobody archives camera phone pictures even to their desktop, let alone to neatly sorted binders on a bookshelf. It's a "shoot, share, discard" philosophy, and I'm just not understanding why it makes sense.

Sorry, that was a rabbit trail...