Chicago newspaper dismiss all photographers and teach reporters take pictures on your iPhone

Representatives of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper announced plans to dismissal of all staff of professional photographers, among which there is even a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In exchange for the publication plans to hold its correspondents fundamentals course iPhoneography.

The widespread penetration of smartphones capable of quick and easy to make and publish high-quality images, the genre of news photos more inclined to the format of "shooting from the field." For example, the first reports from the place of the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma in May based on the photographs of local people, which are published in various social networks.

Apparently, Sun-Times has also decided to join the trend of using amateur mobilography on news channels and websites. However, PhotoChances iPhone 5, equipped with 8-megapixel matrix with glass optics and coating sapphire glass, still can not be compared with modern SLR cameras in the hands of honored professionals.

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