Suw Charman (not a typo – she’s Welsh) writes on Corante about the BBC using a photo taken on a camera phone in their news bulletin this morning.
BBC SouthÌs news bulletins have this morning been illustrating a breaking news story with a still photo taken by a camera phone, and have explicitly stated it as such.
The photo, of the plume of smoke caused by a serious fire that had just broken out, was easily as good as the stills youÌd get from a ÎproperÌ camera – testament to the quality of camera phones now.
Tomorrow, we’ll all be photo journalists.
PS the photo used above is stock footage, taken from CNN. BBCi still haven’t used it on their site.
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