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Some of my favorite photos of this summer

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At times I take photos every day while walking around the city, or just to and from work, or while visiting family. I used to share all my photos on here but ever since getting hooked on Instagram I seem to be sharing less and less, lets change that, from now on I will be sharing photos at least once per week, photos I’ve taken that week or some from years back since I do have a huge library of photos. Here are just a few from the last few photos from this summer, I’ve made a lot more photos but these are some of my favorites. Two are from Delray Beach FL, and the rest from my every day walks around downtown Orlando, FL.

 

 

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Who Invented the Camera Phone

This is an awesome story of the engineer who invented the first camera phone, such a great reason to share a moment, something we do today every single day. 

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A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. The first camera phone was sold in 2000 in Japan, a Sharp J-SH04 J-Phone model, although some argue that the SCH-V200 and Kyocera VP-210 Visual Phone, both introduced months earlier in South Korea and Japan respectively, are the first camera phones.[1]

Most camera phones are simpler than separate digital cameras. Their usual fixed-focus lenses and smaller sensors limit their performance in poor lighting. Lacking a physical shutter, some have a long shutter lag. Photoflash is typically provided by an LED source which illuminates less intensely over a much longer exposure time than a bright and near-instantaneous flash strobe. Optical zoom[2] and tripod screws are rare and none has a hot shoe for attaching an external flash. Some also lack a USB connection or a removable memory card. Most have Bluetooth and WiFi, and can make geotagged photographs. Some of the more expensive camera phones have only a few of these technical disadvantages, but with bigger image sensors (a few are up to 1″), their capabilities approach those of low-end point-and-shoot cameras. In the smartphone era, the steady sales increase of camera phones caused point-and-shoot camera sales to peak about 2010 and decline thereafter. Most model lines improve their cameras every year or two.

Most smartphones only have a menu choice to start a camera application program and an on-screen button to activate the shutter.[3] Some also have a separate camera button, for quickness and convenience. A few camera phones are designed to resemble separate low-end digital compact cameras in appearance and to some degree in features and picture quality, and are branded as both mobile phones and cameras. information provided by Wikipedia.org