Originally posted by i83N Just how many of them are selfise made with front facing camera of iPhone?
Look for yourself on flicker home page:
https://www.flickr.com/cameras/apple/iphone_5s/
2:
Sycamore, Sabino Canyon, December reflection by
allophile, on Flickr
Mini pencils by
Lindsey Thompson (Lindsey76), on Flickr
It is easy to criticize and deny reality. The reality is that most smart phone can take good photos in many situation that are quite good except maybe for shallow deph of field. Some will wine after the low light capabilities but many love film and this one had no stellar low like capabilities back then. Not long ago a 200-300$ compact was worse for everything except zoom.
But smart phones are camera that take phone call, take photos, movies, include instant and intuitive editing of the photo, possibility to send/receive mail, read the news, serve as GPS navigation system, a game console, a music player, act as PDA (you can look at your calendar for next meeting or take notes).
When you already have something like that that available all the time with you, if you decide to buy a dedicated camera, this one has to bring much more to be of any value. I have taken a few photos with my iphone and at least some of them where really nice.
My father did a calendar of one of the photos my mother liked best when she was in terminal phase of cancer... My father love photography, he had many camera back from the 70 with pentax, M135, M50 & M28... He later brough more gear, then got digtal with istDL... Now he has a K30... I have myself K3 before K5. I now have DA15, DA21, DA35, FA50, FA77, DA50-135 & DA17-70. I don't even use anymore the 17-70 as I prefer my primes much better.
Still... When my father selected the shoots to keep and print to my mother, a few where from my iphone. Because the iphone was simply here in the pocket to take the shoot. Because it is far more important to have the good light, the good subject and the good framing than to have the perfect camera.
Another guy did wedding photos with iphone only and edited with iphone only. How crap, many pro shooting D4s or whatever is the most expensive and advenced at the moment would cry to be able to take so great shoots showing the event, the emotions of the persons that well. He finished at 4 position in a photo contest. For sure this guy now his job as a school of photography teacher, but for me it just show that we shouldn't be that focussed on gear and more of the photos we take !
Last edited by Nicolas06; 09-13-2014 at 07:03 AM.