Kevin Systrom Quotes

For Instagram, people use cameras ranging from high-end DSLRs, point-and-shoots, classic film cameras, and their smartphones. I personally like to use my iPhone because I know I will always have it with me.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.

From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.