Of course I realise that some moments are not impossible to photograph. There are experiences - mountains, buildings, people - that yield very well to photographic documentation. When this type of experience is in the offing, it's quite handy to have a camera available.
So it's just as well I've got the Desire. The Desire's own camera is among the best on the market. It handles a range of focal lengths with aplomb and produces perfectly acceptable zoomed and cropped images. True, there's no backward-facing camera, but it's easy to photograph oneself using the self-timer (the auto-focus is very good at spotting faces at arm's length).
The only issue I've really noticed with the Desire's camera is that it struggles with contrast a little more than you'd expect from a decent point-and-shoot (my reference standard is my Canon Powershot A650 IS, which probably isn't fair to the phone. The Canon's image stabilization is also sorely missed - it's very very difficult to get close ups without motion blur on the Desire).
For regular light conditions, though, it's usually fine.
And with the lens almost flush with the case, there are intriguing possibilities for close-up work with flash that could never be done on a point-and-shoot without an external flash (the lens would create a shadow when the subject is too close).
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