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#44
A phone camera is a vastly inferior substitute for a real camera with a real zoom lens. They're fine for snapshots, but taking a quality photo with one is extremely difficult...and they are not physically or electronically capable of taking a photo you'd want to enlarge.

Just remember that there are limitations to any tool. People can use phones and shoot all the crappy photos they want, but when I'm semi-serious my Panasonic pocket digital with 12-power zoom lens comes out:

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...and when I'm really serious it's my Canon T3 digital SLR.

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Like they said in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, using a phone to get a good photo is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
 
#45
The great thing about cameras is that there are many options. This is my primary camera
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and this is my "serious" camera.
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Maybe I'll go digital one day. Probably when I can afford a camera or digital back that will allow me to do what I can do with my current cameras.
 
#49
I have been a professional photographer for almost 30 years. I've shot with everything from a 35mm film camera to an 8 x 10 film view camera. The problem with the iPhone is distortion. Portraits look like crap. There are programs to "fix" the image but they are not that great.
The sensors on the iPhone are TINY. Screw the megapixel hype. I love my iPhone. I use it for snapshots that I will never print but it's not even as good as a point and shoot.

FWIW, I am fully into digital now because of the huge amounts of post production I do on my images. I could never do that with my film images and cameras.

I love the ad that Panasonic uses for their cameras. "If it has a ringtone, it's not a camera."
 
#50
I've been pleasantly surprised at how good the camera is on my Samsung phone. I've been a longtime Nikon film SLR user, and I've had a variety of digital point-and-shoot-with-zoom cameras. I still take my Nikon Coolpix along with me when I travel, but I have a good general purpose alternative in my phone.
 
#52
Today I was looking through the January/February edition of American Photo and coincidentally I came across a photojournalistic article on the fall of Tripoli. This guy shot all of his photos documenting this on an iPhone and the photos are good, serious conflict photojournalism. I cannot imagine ANYONE reading this article and looking at the photos and going, "These suck.. they were shot a phone camera."

Pretty amazing actually and a good article that went with them.

bc
 
#54
DigMe said:
Today I was looking through the January/February edition of American Photo and coincidentally I came across a photojournalistic article on the fall of Tripoli. This guy shot all of his photos documenting this on an iPhone and the photos are good, serious conflict photojournalism. I cannot imagine ANYONE reading this article and looking at the photos and going, "These suck.. they were shot a phone camera."...
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IMHO, the only people who truly complain about subpar pics on camera phones are the professional photographers, the people with little experience on modern phones, and the ones that hate to acknowledge that people with a camera phone take better pictures than they do!
 
#55
MakiSupaStar said:
Camera's would become significant again if they had wifi capability to upload to your computer or to something like flickr.
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As I understand it Nikons new (not yet announced) 3200 (consumer) DSLR is going to have some kind of Wi-fi capability. Nikons recently announced D4 and D800 both have a Wi-Fi with Hot spot but it's fat to expensive (almost $800). If the camera companies were smart they would introduce better point and shoots with at least 4G capability.

The ability of things like Cloud and Wi-Fi actually means less to most pros because the files on better DSLR's are so large. The new D800 is 36mp on a full frame sensor so Raw files are pushing 70 mb, way to large to store on cloud or transmit visa 4G. But a 12 mp point and shoot has MUCH smaller files especially with Jpegs.
 
#58
BurningSkies said:
My 32g iPhone 4 has a huge pile of apps (many are camera related), and I have come nowhere close to running out of space or even half filling my phone with pics and movies. I also have film, digital SLR and point and shoot digital, and except when I want the extra flexibility of the DSLR, the iphone is more than enough camera, and it's connectivity makes it a HUGE winner. Shoot and text,email or post instantly.
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Well, see now you've gone and made me jealous. :mad:

I have an iPhone 3GS and the more apps I have on there the slower it gets. LOL! I used to have a desktop PC with 13.6 GB HD. Now you have a phone with 32g of storage. That's almost hard to believe (not you; the idea that technology has progressed so fast). :D
 
#60
A camera phone allows you to get a picture/video you may not normally get because you have it with you all of the time, well almost all of the time.

A camera phone is no match for a DSLR because of the amount of control you can have over the image with respect to exposure, depth of field, shutter speed. The EOS 1D Classic was 4 mega pixels but there isn't a single phone camera today that can match it for image quality
 

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