You guys are hilarious.
No one said the iPhone would take the place of my camera for every image.
But for the image posted it did fine job and I don't need better.
And the image posted is what a great many people want from their phones.
It is so funny, you post an image and say "this is good for this" and everyone says "but it's not good for this other irrelevant thing that was never mentioned."
Some of us look at a piece of photographic equipment and ask "what can I use that for." Others say "I can't use to for this, that or the other."
If someone gives me a new iPhone, I'll use it instead of my iPhone 5, for the better camera. Would I use it to shoot the Orion Nebula, probably not. Would I use a camera that would take great pictures of the Orion Nebula for snapshots like this? Not a chance. Personally, I like family pictures on hikes more than I like images of the Orion Nebula. IF it's a choice between those two cameras for me I'll take the iPhone.
Cameras (like smart phones) need to be judged on what they do well, not by what they can't do. I don't have to choose. I can use each one for what it's good at. And come out way ahead of those who want one camera to do everything, because there's no one camera that's the best for everything.
The biggest advantage to the phone, it's always in my pocket when I go out. That means it's worthwhile understanding what to use it for. Sure it's good to understand it's not good for the Orion Nebula, but do I really need someone to tell me that? Seriously? Were you thinking we're all complete dummies?
I'm not sure why mentioning phone cameras triggers some people so badly. Especially since all the "wow" research happening right now seems to be directed at phones.
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One more interesting thing about this image... Ricky sent it to me from the ridge. I was looking at it on my computer 40 minutes before they got back from the dog walk. That was just really cool.
Last edited by normhead; 11-10-2021 at 08:02 AM.