The camera I always have with me keeps paying dividends

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There’s an old photography saying that the best camera is the one you have on you at the time.

The iPhone is of course the camera that most of us https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-diary/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">have on us most of the time, and that’s obviously a massive benefit for things like shots of kids, social events, and so on.

But a current video project highlighted another advantage.

I really enjoy walking through London in the early evening, and I’ll quite often shoot photos and short video clips on my iPhone.

Initially, I did so purely for the pleasure of it, but I later realized the potential for short clips to serve as B-roll in https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRr8-m6w3de9UXS9CmO75-g" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">video projects …