Table originally uploaded by blind sam.

My phone's camera has a similar image quality to niecophore niepce's first photographs. However there are differences the obvious being that he created his photographs in the 1820s before the word 'photograph' was even coined.

Related: Current digital scan backs have returned us to the 'exposure' times of Daguerrotypes 1840s and 1850s.

It seems that the digital revolution is either a retrogression in image quality or we are only just at the beginning of the photograph again but perhaps as something else...