The Smartphone vs The Camera Industry
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Does anyone find it awkward and unnatural to hold a smart phone and take picture? I find it not very stable and hard to compose the picture. I still prefer to peek thru' the view finder with one arm prop on my chest. One of the joy of photography is peeking into the view finder. Maybe it's just me.
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For me, it depends on what I am taking.
I am more "natural" using mid range APS-C DSLR with battery grip.
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The Samsung hand phone shows more details and sharper images than the Sony camera.
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I prefer this line of thinking : the camera is a smartphone whose sole function is taking pics, but one it excels at.
however you need to go into the RAW files of a cameras pics and manually edit to get the most out of your camera, jpg processing in a camera is pretty basic & limited as compared to what smartphone computation can do.
and bcos of this, new generation of photographers not only need a good eye & skill with the camera, but also need to be good at post processing.
the camera's processor is devoted to af, capturing burst shots light measurements etc.
modern smartphone excels in computation e.g. fake bokeh, guessing & stitching the scene e.g. HDR, but the sensor is small, it will always lose out in DR, tonal accuracy, low light/high speed situations, no matter what the marketing hype of the smartphone says.
the focus now is on improving smartphone sensors, but this is good for cameras too, any improvements in phone sensors will scale to APS, medium format etc.
it is true that most pictures are viewed on smartphone these days, but a trained eye can almost always tell the difference between a phone & camera pic.
however you need to go into the RAW files of a cameras pics and manually edit to get the most out of your camera, jpg processing in a camera is pretty basic & limited as compared to what smartphone computation can do.
and bcos of this, new generation of photographers not only need a good eye & skill with the camera, but also need to be good at post processing.
the camera's processor is devoted to af, capturing burst shots light measurements etc.
modern smartphone excels in computation e.g. fake bokeh, guessing & stitching the scene e.g. HDR, but the sensor is small, it will always lose out in DR, tonal accuracy, low light/high speed situations, no matter what the marketing hype of the smartphone says.
the focus now is on improving smartphone sensors, but this is good for cameras too, any improvements in phone sensors will scale to APS, medium format etc.
it is true that most pictures are viewed on smartphone these days, but a trained eye can almost always tell the difference between a phone & camera pic.
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Huawei apologises for using DSLR shots to promote its smartphone photo contest
Huawei was caught once again for using DSLR photos to promote its smartphones.
https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tec...lr-shots-promote-its-smartphone-photo-contest
Huawei was caught once again for using DSLR photos to promote its smartphones.
https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tec...lr-shots-promote-its-smartphone-photo-contest
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