It is bound to happen. Just click the link here to see for yourself. Nick Laham's Instagramed portrait of Alex Rodriguez made the front page of the New York Times Sunday edition.

This was an Instagram moment where the photo in question was shot using an Instagram app on the iPhone. Is this the end of professional photojournalism as we know it today? You bet.

Even though Nick was a professional photographer, he was using a less than stellar camera to capture that image, this opens up a can of worms for Professionals who shoot commercially to earn their keep because it spells the doom for pro equipment makers like Canon and Nikon who count on Professionals to keep their branding up in the marketing space.

If all pros used only an iPhone to shoot photos, then why bother with carrying those expensive DSLRs and lenses? Don't make sense does it? It also opens up the possibility that you can use DCCs and even smaller iLC cameras like the Olympus EM-5 and XZ-2 as pro equipment.

The next thing that will happen is that you don't need to carry a DSLR to be a Pro. Stock image agencies will be licensing iPhone images rather than DSLR images and Nikon would have to file fo Chapter 11 not too far into the future (both Sony and Canon have much wider wares to count on to supplement their revenue).

This can be a good thing (for amateurs) or a bad thing (for existing pros) who count on their equipment to do the job of delivering the best images to a potential client. It depends on which side of the fence you're standing on.

I would love to submit all my stock images shot only on a Smartphone. It makes good sense since I don't earn enough to buy Pro equipment. Let's not forget that you don't earn very much from stock images in the first place to warrant buying Pro equipment.

For example, on Alamy, there is a list of forbidden cameras which CANNOT be used to capture images for stock submission. But the contradiction to all this is that you can submit NEWS images shot on iPhones and Smartphones for them to sell online to news agencies.

Funny isn't it?

It's sad but from April, Fujifilm prices are all set to go up. Would love to see a film revival of somesort but it's not happening. The release was taken from Fuji's global website.

I had avoided posting this on April 1st as people might have thought it was a joke.

Date of Price Increases: Effective from April 2013 onward

The demand for film products is continuously decreasing and the cost of production, such as raw materials, oil and energy, continues to rise or stays at a high level and cost increase associated with lower volume becomes much serious. Under such circumstances, despite our efforts to maintain the production cost, Fujifilm is unable to absorb these costs during the production process and is forced to pass on price increases.
To sustain its photo imaging business, Fujifilm has decided to increase the price of photographic films.

Fujifilm remains committed to photographic products despite its price change.

The new pricing structure will be applied to each market based on its individual conditions.

 I am often reminded how easy it is to shoot in digital. Just dial in the auto mode and fire away. You can't go wrong especially if you have RAW file mode enabled.

That's why the challenge in photography often lies in using film. These two photos were shot on slide. The first is of Johnny Herbert, F1 driver and the second one Shinichi Ito, Suzuka 8 Hour winner and 500cc MotoGP rider.

Film doesn't have the super sharp pixel density you often see in high resolution digital cameras. The quality is different. I realize this when I was browsing the photos at 500px,com, look carefully and you'd see the sharpening and detail. Not a bad thing but it is almost unreal.

Film has its unique look. The analogue quality is evident the moment you look at it. The dynamic range is different too.

Shooting film is very challenging because you need to know what film to use. Expose it wrongly and you'll find it difficult to recover the detail. Mistakes are often fatal, and there is no turning back.

Film may have a much bigger latitude but that doesn't mean you can underexpose a frame and expect the quality to be the same. It isn't. If you overexpose it too much you lose the detail in high contrast scenes. Zone metering is probably a good way to get a correct exposure. Slide film is more difficult, with a latitude of about 2/3 of a stop. Negatives can still hold an image with a 1.3 stop difference.

I wish Kodachrome was still around. Store it well, these slides will last for ages. It was my preferred choice even when the latitude was very narrow. Kodachrome 64 only has 1/3 stop latitude and shooting high contrast scenes can be very difficult. In zone metering, where you take the darkest and lightest areas of a scene to get an average, the difference can be up to 5 stops. How you select an exposure to capture the best detail is crucial. Metering on a grey card is often the preferred choice.

I love my Nikons. The FM2 and FE2 are my choice favs. I do love my F4 too, but I don't have much time to shoot with it now that I am playing around with smaller cameras like the Pen-f.

So the iPod Touch gets and upgraded camera, 5 megapixels in all, does the Pano hold up? Actually it is not too bad though the reports of flaring might damper your hopes. This particular picture was shot on a cloudy day and the brightness and highlights had to be adjusted down wards.

For landscapes to work, you need to have a human figure to contrast against the vista. This way you get to see more and know the size of the vista that is before you.

These were shot using the new iPod touch. It is a very good street camera because it is small & you can wear it around your neck without attracting too much attention. Don't use flash if possible and you just gotta be sneaky to know when to shoot. I don't like people looking directly into my camera when I capture them, reason being they should not be aware that you are pointing something at them. Some of the best places to shoot street is within the city, where you find a hive of activity.

That's all you really need to shoot pictures for sharing. This was shot using my old Acer Liquid E that has a 5mp camera.

I love using camera 360 it's a nice app for android and iOS. It's one of my favorite apps because it's easy to use and it has a lot of features. This particular picture was shot using the iPod touch fifth-generation.