In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

I would offer the camera to a high school or middle school for use by
the student "reporters" for the school paper.

If they were really nice kids they would wait until you left before
giggling and whipping out their iPhones.

Actually, at the middle school in which one of my grandsons was on the
Yearbook Committee of, they encourage the use of "real cameras". The
teacher who heads up the program feels that the use of a dedicated
camera makes the student feel he's "on assignment" instead of just
doing something along the lines of social media.

what rubbish.

if that 'teacher' really wanted to teach kids, he'd teach them how to
take awesome photos with whatever camera they want to use, not force
them to use demonstrably ****tier cameras because for some bogus
reason. he's out of touch with the real world and is likely jealous
that his students have better phones and cameras than he does and can
do more than he can.

http://www.americanphotomag.com/phot...tagram-syria-s
andy
- Journalist Ben Lowy covered the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy with
his phone.
- Lowy had used his phone for his work before, for instance,
documenting events in Libya during the summer of 2012.
- Covering the Democratic Republic of Congo with his iPhones has
given Michael Christopher Brown increased freedom and flexibility.
- Early adopter Richard Koci Hernandez has been a camera-phone
devotee since he started using the first iPhone (with its 2MP camera)
to shoot assignments for the San Jose Mercury News.
- Sports photographer Brad Mangin used an iPhone and Instagram for
his baseball portraits, which later became part of a book.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/1/43...s-cuts-entire-
photography-staff-trains-reporters-iphone
The Chicago Sun-Times this week laid off all 28 of its staff
photographers, and has reportedly begun training its remaining
reporters on "iPhone photography basics." Media journalist Robert
Feder first reported the news in a post to his Facebook page Friday,
citing an internal memo from Sun-Times managing editor Craig Newman.

https://www.good.is/articles/where-have-all-the-photojournalists-gone
In short, because it was receiving so many photo submissions via its
user-generated iReport platform, CNN decided that it could afford to
do away with 12 of its full-time photographers. The message at the
root of the layoffs was big: In an age when anyone with an iPhone can
tweet breaking news pictures, the photojournalist is going the way of
the pterodactyl.

https://www.kodakphones.com/photojournalism-smartphones-essential/
But as a journalist and film maker, he says the greatest value of
smartphones is precisely that everyone has one, opening up
possibilities to secure images and footage in places where the media
is denied access.

The subjects of the
photographs react differently, too. They don't pay attention to phone
photos because that's so everyday to them.

which is normally a *good* thing and makes for better photos.