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A Camera in Every Pocket

I think the common use of a smartphone camera comes from the fact that those photos are being taken through that medium purely for the matter of convenience without everyone going and having to find a real camera every time they want to capture something. No one could have predicted what effect that convenience would have on our society today.

Facts:

• "Photographers are getting destroyed by the rise of iPhones. The photographers who used to make £1,000 for a weekend taking wedding pictures are the ones facing the squeeze. Increasingly we don't need photographers – we can do just as well ourselves" (Olmos para. 7).
• Why is digital lazy? "It's a scattergun approach. You snap away thinking, 'One of these shots will work', rather than concentrate on capturing the image." (Para. 14)