Originally posted by biz-engineer Recently I purchased a new mobile phone, the Samsung S9...
Good post, with a balanced opinion. It's nice to read something that isn't completely polarised in favour of, or against, camera phones "vs" ILCs.
In another recent thread, @RonHendriks1966 mentioned a Dutch professional photographer, Annet de Graaf, who uses nothing but her iPhone. Her work is excellent. And one of my all-time favourite photographers, Stephen Shore, almost exclusively shoots with an iPhone now. Good subject matter, story-telling, composition, lighting and technique will result in great photographs, pretty much regardless of a camera's limitations - I think we'd all agree on that. And camera phones like your S9 are impressive, highly capable photographic tools... but still have significant limitations in image quality and versatility compared to larger-sensor ILCs. Technology is amazing, but we're kidding ourselves if we think a tiny sensor and lens crammed into a pocket-sized device will produce equivalent IQ to an APS-C or full-frame ILC with a selection of well-chosen lenses...
That said, I agree with the "
best camera is the one you have with you" notion to some extent, and if a good quality, modern camera phone is what we have with us at a given time, we can still take some fantastic photographs.