...because if you don't, the only camera you're carrying could be as bad as the one on my Blackberry and you'll end up with a far less than idea image of something like this...

or you can get an iphone4s which is an outstanding secondary camera

Yes, but I carry my phone for it's phone and email, and the BB is definitely superior for what I need it for - which is work email. But I'm guessing that by the time I'm ready to replace my phone, BB will no longer be a viable option, and so my camera will improve even as my email will degrade. ;-)

Hmm... What would a better camera have done for you? The image quality isn't bad, if not outstanding. Seems to me the problem here is that there are two possible images that no focal length can reconcile. There's the architectural shot, which you have nicely rendered and there's the family in the window shot, which doesn't work here because they're too small. It sure would be great to get both, but I don't think a better camera would have mattered. A longer lens (or zoom) could certainly have delivered the family in the window, but only by sacrificing the nice overall framing that you got.

True, Richard, this was a bit of a balancing act. But...A real camera would have produced much better image quality, and also would have produced an image that, had I wanted to, I could have cropped and still have had a decent quality image.

Originally Posted by bdcolen But...A real camera would have produced much better image quality, and also would have produced an image that, had I wanted to, I could have cropped and still have had a decent quality image.

Yes, that's certainly true. It would have been a different image, though there's nothing wrong with that.