Camera phones changing the definition of picture-worthy

[Steve Bildermann]

Unlike the traditional camera, the camera phone is an intimate and ubiquitous presence that invites a new kind of personal awareness, a persistent alertness to the visually newsworthy that makes amateur photojournalists out of its users.

Japan Media Review



How Keitai phones work

[omae mona]

Unfortunately, that link doesn't seem to be working (at the moment, at least).

But point well taken. For example, am I the only camera-phone-toting FG who erroneously thinks, several times a day, that we've found the specimen for the next front page of http://www.engrish.com (e.g.:



)?

Recently, the presence of my camera phone has caused me to intensely scan crowds (especially on trains) for the presence of nose-pickers, so I can have my very own movie! I feel like I'm not a real FG until I have filmed one.

[Taro Toporific]

,,, For example, am I the only camera-phone-toting FG who erroneously thinks, several times a day, that we've found the specimen ...

F.A.C. is tough.

[Taro Toporific]

am I the only camera-phone-toting FG who erroneously thinks, several times a day, that we've found the specimen for the next front page of http://www.engrish.com (e.g.:

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