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Subject: Re: Time to stop flying? Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:43 -0500

In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:

> The main drawback of a camera phone on a plane (apart from being banned
> at the moment) is a lack of mechanical zoom. You can often (enough) get
> a good view of something worth taking, but it's normally a long way
> away. You can fix the horizons and perspective easily in photoshop, and
> the foreground of an aerial photo is somewhat moot. I wouldn't expect a
> photo-editor to be interested (unless it was a picture of a UFO or a
> mid-air near-miss etc) but as an "amateur enthusiast" it seems to me
> that lower quality pictures snatched from a hard-to-find angle are just
> as legitimate as faux-professional static photo shoots.

Shots through windows are generally not worth keeping anyway, but I can
take them with my camera. Don't need a phone for them.

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Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

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