• Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Letting go
  Guardian Egyptian is now available for licensing.Our exclusivity deal with the font designers has come to an end and I found out this week that our wonderful typeface is now being used in a Norweigian news magazine
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I have promised myself a new camera sometime this year as a special treat. Not an SLR - because, frankly, my abilities are more than catered for with my trusty D70.

I just fancy having something a little more portable - but also something with a bit of decent image quality.

Anyway, that’s where I started - and my shortlist was down to the Canon G9 (general good reviews and lots of excellent use of them on Flickr), or the Ricoh Caplio GX-100 (because Bowbrick has one - and the 24mm lens could come in handy).

Now I’m having second thoughts - should I be trading a bit of camera quality for connectivity? In particular with this camera, it’s not just that I can carry it anywhere, but also that I can send stuff off to Flickr asap.

In other words - should I look for the best possible Camera with a phone attached?

Now, the immediate choice would be a Nokia N95…but it just feels like such a waste to have all that additional functionality and not use it (I’ve just gone to all the effort of swapping a phone+ blackberry for just a Curve..and I don’t want to go back)0

….someone told me yesterday that 8MP cameraphones are coming in the summer…

…decisions…decisions…

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  (tags: hardware gadgets)

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  (tags: advertising)
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  (tags: journalism news)