The iPhone as portable portfolio?
So I think I may be the only guy on the planet who hasn’t been particularly obsessed with the iPhone. Yeah it’s definitely a cool toy, but I have a nice treo already, and plus the iPhone doesn’t connect to MS Exchange, AFAIK…
what I realized after reading some of the reviews/articles about it is that it might just make an incredible photography accessory.
The huge, high rez screen combined with iPhoto integration means you can use it to store/show images. I imagine you could make it into a virtual portfolio, segmented by “gallery” - set up a few albums in iPhoto, sync them to the phone and now when you are talking to a potential client interested in your work -BAM- you can pull up the appropriate album (wedding/product/modeling/stock/landscape/ whatever…) and show them on the spot.
Kinda like the epson p-2000 only better (since you can separate out galleries/albums and it is a phone/pda/portable computer in addition to a sideshow viewer!)
Definitely a step up from just handing a business card and hoping they visit your website!
But is it worth 600 bucks just for that? That remains to be seen…
Oh yeah, and being as this is apple, I’m definitely going to wait for the 2nd gen. 
Tags: photogear
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