I arrive at the scene of a car into a house, two minutes later there is a picture waiting across town for the web editor. Before noon yesterday, all of my pictures were published from my camera phone.
Two news events back to back, little time to waste using laptops, cords and legacy cameras. The irony of this speedy turnaround is that the Blackberry Storm contains a very slow camera, and would normally be unsuitable by photojournalism's 8 frames per second world. The operator of a Graflex Speed Graphic in 1920 would have all the skills to anticipate the use of this camera.
The Blackberry Storm uses a 3.2 megapixel camera with mechanical auto focus and auto exposure that is integrated with a really powerful LED flash/video light. The next version Blackberry Storm is expected to ship with a 5 MP camera.
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