Smartphone cameras for fingermark photography?

[JRAS]

Does anyone know of any work that has been done on the use/potential use of smartphone cameras for fingermark photography?

[Bill Schade]

MorphoTrak offers a product for capturing latents on an i-pad and sending them to their AFIS system for searching.

It's not "stand alone" but it might have relevance to your inquiry

it's called MiCrimeScene

[JRAS]

Thanks Bill! I'd love to hear from anyone who has experience of using this, or any other similar products, or has any info/anecdotes relating to simply using smartphone cameras without such a product.

[NRivera]

The main drawback to this, aside from resolution concerns, is that the original captured image is usually not in a lossless format. Data security is the other concern.

[JRAS]

NRivera - valid concerns, which should be obvious but, I suspect, are not obvious to everyone! But then those concerns also apply to other image capture devices and, it could be argued, pretty much any imaging system.