one thing i like about my crappy cameraphone's photos:
it makes it obvious how different the photo and the experience are. a photo can be art in and of itself, but it is not the same as seeing. it's a different thing. so when i post a photo, i'm saying: here is a marker, a reminder, of an experience. but it's not the same thing.
i think when the photo quality is so good, it's hard to remember that it's not the same thing as the experience of seeing.
some examples: i tried to take two photos recently, but because of my crappy camera i couldn't get them.
i was walking to the bus stop the other morning, and i walked past someone's door, and there was a travel mug of hot, steaming coffee on the doorstep. it smelled so good, and it was a really cold morning so you could see the steam. i tried to get a photo, but the light was bad and the doorway was shadowed, and the pic i took really didn't get the steam very well. so i skipped that photo.
driving a car on a damp, foggy evening, i had to wipe the inside windshield with my fingers. the oil from my fingertips left clear, faintly rainbow-haloed streaks across the windshield. the headlights of oncoming cars would light up these crazy paths on the glass, and it was strange and beautiful. my camera couldn't catch that light, though, and the streaks didn't show on the photo i took.