I was on a trip in mountains this week. I was there with my colleagues
from work. There was excellent weather and we were in beautiful
mountains so we took a lot of pictures.
As I expected I was the only person who didn't had a touchscreen-based
smartphone. All people used their smartphones to take pictures so I was
also the only one who used a camera (a very basic Kodak FZ101). And it
see,s that many of modern phones can take better pictures than my
camera.
The interesting thing was to see how much people depend on their
phones. At one moment we made several groups. And one of groups tried
no notice the other one that they are late. By the phone of course. But
there are places where is no wireless coverage. We were in mountains...
It was very surprising and disappointing for them.
Then we stopped in a mountain hotel for refreshments. Here they started
to trying to exchange pictures which they took (with use of the
WhatsApp or something like that). And it was unexpected for them that
it is not possible to send/receive so big files (you know, full-size
images taken by at least 10Mpix cameras)... (All people here were at
least Ph.D. in engineering, albeit not in electrical engineering or in
informatics).
When we returned to our hotel then I downloaded my pictures to the GPD
Pocket, selected a few nice ones, scaled them down ("convert -scale")
and sent them to my colleagues by e-mail. They the started to ask me
how I managed to sent the pictures because they were not able to do the
same. No wonder they were not able to do this because full-size
pictures were about 50MB and the scaled down were just about 5MB. No
one can send 59MB of images in one e-mail is there is a 10MB limit...
