Yes, the best camera is the one most readily available (trying to avoid use of the trademarked phrase!), but it’s no use if it’s not easy to use, pleasing to use and produces decent results.

I’ve seen a lot of pics recently from @Documentally on twitter, and they all have something of a really interesting feel to them compared to the bog-standard shots I get from my iPhone, and of course it turns out he’s using a funky app to produce them. Not one with ‘recipes’ and an ‘ecosystem’ behind it designed to self-promote an already highly-promoted professional photographer, but an app designed simply to simulate an old bit of kit.

Hipstamatic is awesome. It’s not quite as fast on my iPhone 3G as the demo suggests, but it’s still fun to use and produces some cool results, like this shot of a 393 bus opposite Sainsbury’s in Camden. It’s not a technically brilliant shot – there’s camera shake, for a start – but it looks damned fine to me. And that’s all that matters.