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Gormless wrote:
> "Jambo" <jbooth32@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:1127495825.706946.252470@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi all
> > Accidentally took some pics on my Sony phone with the Solarize feature
> > left on. Is there a program i can use to reverse this on the pics i
> > have?
> > Many thanks for any help
> > James
> >
>
> I think the words pics and phone have no legal right to appear in the same
> sentence.
>
> It saddens me to see the number of people at probably important events (to
> them, anyway) poking a 1MP (if they're lucky) mobile phone in the general
> direction of the action.
>
> I shudder to imagine what sort of pictorial travesty this so-called
> 'solarize' feature produces, but I greatly doubt it's reversible.
> Solarisation (forgive my British, and correct, spelling) is a process of
> removal, and you can't put back what you simply don't know was removed. Eg,
> was it blue or was it red?
>
> (I suspect that even if the solarise feature was set to off you wouldn't get
> any useable pictures from the device. But that's just a sad and deluded old
> 16+ MP real camera user speaking)
I think camera phones are great! I don't own one, don't need a cell
phone at the moment, but I've used them enough to know what a handy
thing they can be. I used to sell cell phones. I had one client who was
a buyer who travelled all over the country, looking for specific items
her company needed that were often hard to find. In the past, when she
located an item that looked promising, she'd have to get the specs on
the item, the get to a fax machine, send them to the office, and wait
for a yes or no. She wanted the phone camera so she could just snap a
pic, send it back, and get her reply in minutes. I also sold them to
real estate agents, people in the car buying and selling business,
import/export business and other businesses where a quick, simple, low
resolution image was more than adequate.
If I had a choice, I wouldn't take one to a major event, but if I was
at a major event without a real camera, I'd be very happy I had a
camera phone. Like most things, including expensive DSLR's, they have
their uses. It's knowing the capabilities and limitations of the device
that make them useful. Lack of that understanding can certainly render
them useless!
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