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@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@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.
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