2012 has been the year that smartphones have started to dominate the world of still photography. Kodak has fallen apart, the cheap digital camera market is in decline, Facebook has offered $1 billion for Instagram. How would a smartphone camera in the hands of a professional photographer perform during this year's biggest sporting event? Follow Guardian photojournalist Dan Chung as he captures the London 2012 Olympics using smartphones

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You'd think the 2012 Olympics would prove the perfect opportunity for sports photographers to give something like a new Nikon D4 a workout, but Guardian photojournalist Dan Chung is taking a slightly different approach. He's keeping a photoblog entirely comprised of pictures taken with his iPhone, covering everything from fast-paced action on the field to colorful portraits of fans.

Most of the pictures used an iPhone 4S— "the snapshot camera of today," according to Annie Liebovitz — and the processing app Snapseed, but Chung also used a clip-on Schneider lens and some Canon binoculars to achieve his results. It's well worth clicking through to see the full set, and it'll be updated with more pictures as the Games go on. Between this and Getty Images licensing Instagram portraits of the New York Yankees, the iPhone seems to have found an unlikely home in the world of sports photography.

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Following on from the discussions about Dean Mouhtaropoulos' decision to use a Panasonic to capture the Olympics, here's further support for the 'it's the photographer, not the gear' argument. Photojournalist, videographer and dpreview contributorDan Chung has been capturing the Olympic experience with his iPhone. In conjunction with some binoculars, a clip-on Schneider lens and the Snapseed processing app, he's been live-blogging from the games. The images are understandably small but present a fascinating, near-live insight into what's happening in London.

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