2007 – A gray metallic Siemens S55 mobile phone with attached QuickPic IQP-500 camera. Photo © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
2007. A year ago, former telecommunications giant Siemens had sold his mobile phone unit Siemens mobile to BenQ, an electronics manufacturer from Taiwan which rebranded the business as BenQ mobile.
I knew that the Siemens product portfolio would change soon enough. I was still using a tiny Siemens S55 – the most reliable phone I had in my life, ever. To conserve this period of my life in a single photo I attached the IQP-500 camera to the phone and placed it on a white background in the studio.
The IQP-500 was proof for the changing times. The phone itself had no internal camera (like its successor, the S65) but the need for a camera was apparent. So the product team had developed this attachable camera. It was a small piece that came with a tiny bag but you could rarely see people taking pictures with it. The user experience was just too awkward (IIRC). It lacked the simplicity of shooting a photo right away.
BenQ mobile did not survive for long and filed for insolvency on the 29th September 2006.
These were rough times, and I remember them well. I am very happy that I did this shot in the summer of 2007.
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The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 21-JUL-2007, 10:58 |
| Location | Munich, Germany |
| Camera | Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II |
| Lens | Canon EF 24-70 mm 2.8 L USM |
| ISO | 800 |
| Exposure | 1/250 sec at f/5.6 |
| Digital Image Source Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 4963 x 4963 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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