6 Cellphone images in Time Magazine's "Best Photos of the Year"

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timeOday wrote:


http://www.time.com/time/yip/2005/index.html

#20 of 24 is a tiling of 6 images from the London underground bombing.
The shots were captured on cellphones in near darkness.

I guess it goes to show that interesting or important subject matter
trumps other aspects of image quality.
Those cell phone images remind me of capturing images with toy cameras.
They look bad even on a computer monitor. Imagine how small and lack
luster they would look printed on a high resolution media such as
photographic paper. That and transfer charges are why my cellphones do
not include the camera function. Others are more useful to me.