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I'm a Brit. I live in the UK. I'm not going to be able to join in the iPhone frenzy until later this year, when Apple gets around to launching the thing in Europe.

One thing I am watching with particular interest is the quality of the photography from the phone. My Nokia phones have all but replaced digital compacts in my day to day snapping, leaving me the SLR for serious work.

Can the iPhone come up to scratch in this area? I'll be watching the quality of images in this iPhone Flickr group carefully.

I know I'm rather late to this, but I'm finally starting to get into the social side of Flickr, rather than just using it as a photo host / dumping ground..

I think the combination of my new scanner, the sudden arrival of spring and a couple of on-going photo projects have reawakened my dormant love of photography.

I wonder if there are enough photographically-inclined readers of this blog to start up some form of social group with challenges?

A Gig At QMW circa 1992, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.

I've recently acquired a new scanner, which can handle film and negative scanning. This is a direct scan from some black & white negatives taken while I was at university at the early 90s.

It was shot on Ilford HP5 Film. I haven't been able to identify the band yet.

Expect quite a few images like this over the weekend…

Further proof that film photography is on the way out: in the last 24 hours we've been unable to find a single pharmacist or supermarket that sells camera film in the area of Bristol my mother in law calls home.

Yahoo's purchase of Flickr, the excellent photo hosting/community site, is starting to generate some interesting things. Finally. Flickr's been integrated with Yahoo Maps to allow you to “geotag” your photos - add information about where the pic was taken to the photo itself, and then display the results on a map. You can see mine here.

A colleague and I have been playing around with it today (you can see his thoughts on Flickr Maps on the Travolution Blog), and have come to the same conclusion: the quality of the maps outside the US sucks really, really badly. Happily, though, Flickr is aware of the issue:

There's been a lot of grumbling about the maps detail and coverage of Yahoo! maps outside the U.S. We definitely hear it, and the Yahoo! Local/Maps team, which happens to sit across from the Flickr team hears it (and feels it!) ... loud and clear. The maps in much of the world are not good enough yet. We agree.

But, fear not: maps are continually being upgraded and street-level detail for more countries has been in the works for a while already. Satellite imagery upgrades already happen a couple of times each month (the Earth is big, y'know) and in the months since the new Maps beta launched, they've already made significant improvements. More are coming.

So, with a bit of luck, we'll see some big improvements in a couple of months. I've long felt that map-based information was going to be a big thing going forwards. This might just prove my point for me.

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From a single week's holiday in France, I have come back with 253 photos, taken on three different devices, totaling over 1Gb of data.

This really is a new age of photography

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