Bad photos

We've reached the point in photography where the "olde" Kodak Instamatic 104 camera lives again. For those of you under 50 years old, the Instamatic 104 was a 126 format film camera that opened photography up to the unwashed masses of the '60s.

It was simple and easy to use and you could get your pictures from any drug store or photo shop (yes, there used to be kiosks in every town in the country to process film pictures). It was capable of taking pictures much like the camera-in-a-phones we have today. It took pictures easily and, unfortunately, did so very badly.

The cameras in most of the phones that people use today are capable of taking photos and videos. And, much like the Instamatic 104, the results suck. Some phones have the technical ability to take decent pictures but the users of these phones will never use them well.

The skill required to take good photographs requires training and most users don't have it. I remain appalled at the poor quality of 99.99999999999% of the photos I've seen that were taken by phones.

My current opinion is: to talk to other people, use a phone. To take a photograph, use a camera!!!