[SIGCIS-Members] Early mobile phone photography

[Friedrich Tietjen]

   Hi Christine,
thanks for your reply and the link to your project and the images  
there. And as with other photos from other SIGCIS persons (thanks  
again to you, too!) I was surprised about the quality of these images  
- a far cry of what I seem to remember from the camera phone images  
that I encountered back then - it might be the lousy resolution of the  
tiny color screen of the Siemens phone I used in the early 00s. I  
searched for your blog on Rome but couldn't find it at Wayback. Mhm.  
I'll think of something.
   Thanks again, and all the best
   Friedrich




Quoting Christine Finn <christine.finn at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I don't use a smartphone, and low tech is part of my artistic practice out
> of choice.
>
> You might find images of interest at www.leavehomestay.com - a project from
> 2007 - 2013 using a Sony-Eriksson and BlackBerry (non-smart for me, as
> camera low-res) and surprising results when enlarged.
>
> On Wayback you might find my early blog about Rome, hosted at Stanford
> Humanities Lab from 2005 - 2013, where you'll find many images which I took
> on an early Nokia.
>
> best wishes,
> Christine
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 13:49, Friedrich Tietjen via Members <
> members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
>
>>    Dear colleagues,
>>
>> together with a group of Swiss, German and Finnish colleagues I'm
>> currently researching into cameras from a cultural studies
>> perspective. One thing I'm trying to get a better understanding of are
>> early mobile phone cameras and their images. I'm in particular
>> interested in pre-smartphone photography, and I wonder whether you can
>> help me out:
>>
>> # I couldn't find a library of photographs taken with camera-equipped
>> phones. Would you know if there is one? If there is none and you have
>> such photographs (and also videos) somewhere - would you mind sharing
>> some with me (if available with information about the phone used)?
>>
>> # Would you know of a place collecting the tech specifications of
>> these early phones? I'm particularly interested in whether .jpg was
>> consistently used as a format or, if not, which other formats were in
>> use.
>>
>>    Many thanks in advance
>>    Friedrich
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