The Independent: Sony Ericsson's Extraordinary People

A week can be a long time in travel, as this gallery of seven days of journeys by our senior travel editor shows. Photography and words by Simon Calder.

If only a picture was worth exactly 1,000 words, life for the travel journalist would be so much easier. Mind you, digital photography has, among other things, transformed the tricky business of note taking. No longer do I feverishly scribble down train times and museum opening hours, when a click of the camera phone or digital camera will provide a perfect record. Photography also serves as a visual chronicle of those precious dimensions of time and distance.(click thumbnail to view enlarged image)

The 5-megapixel Sony Ericsson K850i camera
phone boasts functions that make it cutting
edge. These include Photo fix, which improves
dark shots, and BestPic, which saves the shot
when you press the trigger, plus four shots
before you press it and four after. The xenon
flash is significantly brighter than most camera
phone’s and there are even scene modes, just
like on a conventional digital camera, where you
can optimise images with settings such as
Twilight, Landscape, Sports and so on. There’s
also a setting for photographing documents and
you can record videos to boot.

The K850i is available now at O2 stores or online
at www.o2.co.uk

Click here to find out more about the K850i and watch our Vodcast

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Left: Give my regards to Waterloo International: a final visit before Eurostar trains move to St Pancras International.
Right: Me and Amy Winehouse: she’s in my headphones as I slumber.

Left: Calling Avon: Bath in autumn looks great
Right: A sign in France’s Basque Country

Left: First impressions: meeting a mosaic of Vincent van Gogh in southern France.
Right: Soul sister: a Madonna watches over mariners off shore from Biarritz.

Left:The results of my pottering around in the souk in Fez
Right: Posing at a ruin in Fez in my fez