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Anyone else think that this is a bit of overkill for what is effectively a snapshot camera? Nobody is doing serious photography with an iPhone.

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> Nobody is doing serious photography with an iPhone.

Bullshit. A quick Googling reveals plenty of professional photographers using iPhones in their work.

For example: http://www.chasejarvis.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10...

Professional != Serious, necessarily.

If my wedding photographer showed up with an iPhone, I'd demand my money back.

You need to define "serious", then. I'd consider photos taken with the intent of exhibiting them in a gallery pretty "serious" photography.

I wouldn't hire an artist to do a building-sized mural in pencil, but that hardly means no one's doing serious art with pencils.

That's true but don't forget that the iPhone is the world's most used digital camera.

Charts: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

I'd be curious to know what Facebook's stats are, because they're WAY larger than any of the other photo sharing sites.

No one's ever suffered because their camera's quality was too high. (resolution != quality)

This is true, but the megapixel god is a false profit as well. Often the highest resolution cameras don't take the best pictures. I have printed (pictures)[http://www.nucleusdevelopment.com/media/photo/goog.jpg] taken with my iphone 3gs. I was never able to do so with my N1, or galaxy S. The quality just wasn't there even though those phones camera's where nearly double the resolution.

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