43 
Next time someone with a fancy DSLR scoffs at you while you’re taking photos with your iPhone, tell them, “it’s good enough for Annie Leibovitz.” That should shut them up.
Even if you don’t know who Leibovitz is, you’ve seen her photographs. You may know her as the photographer of the famous naked John Lennon hugging Yoko Ono photo. When Annie talks photography, people listen. So when asked by MSNBC what camera she recommends to people and she replied the iPhone, everyone took notice. She calls the iPhone, “the snapshot camera of today,” and remarks that it’s, “so accessible and easy.” Watch Leibovitz talk about the iPhone in the video below.
Obviously Annie Leibovitz isn’t recommending the iPhone over a DSLR or any other high-end camera, but she does make a great point about the iPhone and other smart phones. Because it’s in our pockets at all times, we’re taking and sharing more photos now than anytime in human history. No word on how she feels about Instagram. [MSNBC via MacRumors]
That picture you’ve used makes her look very…. manly.
I’ve been using the camera on my phone since they were first introduced many moons ago, been able to get some nice pics.
The old Leibovitz looks manly in this photograph shocker, next they will be telling you she is a lesbian.
Lets be straight there, this means nothing. Infact it means less than nothing.
All she is doing is saying that the Iphone is a good snapshot point and shoot camera. Wow, blow me down, i never knew that.
You think any of the shots in her new book are taken with an Iphone? I seriously doubt it. You think she’d do a photo expo and blabber on about an Iphone and how its settings work? I think not. You think any real photographer (and i say real as most people who know nothing about photography won’t even know who the woman is) is going to take her advice and rush out and buy an Iphone for its incredible picture taking abilities. Never in a million years.
She is not recommending it as a camera, she recommending it as a digital accessory, a phone, a storage device, Oh wait! hang on, she’s recommending a smart phone!
Bitter much!?
Not bitter, just mislead.
The story makes out that oh my god this world famous photographer thinks that an Iphone is the best camera on the market.
She doesn’t and it isn’t. Yes its a great point and shoot, woop woop. Its seems like this was a no news day and the presenters minds exploded at the thought.
A news story for the sake of writing one in my opinion. She does not recommend it as a ‘camera’ she recommends it as an all round device. hence, mislead.
Id just like to point out that im in no way remarking on the journalistic properties of Gizmodo here. Infact the video still used above says it all.
Leibovitz is just saying, if you are going to carry a P&S around 24/7 then you already have a capable P&S camera in the smartphone you carry around, with the advantage of doing so much more than just take a photo.
It is just part of the old saying, the best camera is the one you have on you.
If you see aliens in your back garden it doesn’t matter what you take a photograph with as long as you get a good photograph, sure you will take a much better photograph with a 24MP DSLR, and have greater scope on the creative control, but the time you dig it out while getting the battery and memory together you will have missed the shot.
Still a big difference of just taking an quick unplanned photograph and planning to take a quality professional photograph.