Originally posted by Zealex Also, I tried shooting a photo of something indoors at 400iso and it's practically black. Tried using my galaxy s3 at 400 ISO and it was able to take the photo. The only way my DSLR can take the photo is if the flash is up. I'm a bit confused by this.
You've been studying aperture, Zealex?
The S3 has one of 2.6, which is wider than the two beginners' lenses you have.
Another advantage of your phone is that it will be easier to focus, because it's almost a pinhole camera WRT to DoF.
But zooming its fixed focal length to be equivalent to anything your lenses can do means cropping and killing pixels (and it has less than your K-r to start with!).
Also, that tiny lens and tiny sensor means in low light many of the pixels are noise, which the phone attempts to cover up in its software JPEG noise reduction along with serious distortion, so you lose even more detail compared to your DSLR once corrected.
The phone's depth of field also make it very difficult to do a professional-looking portrait or shot of an interesting object where the distracting background has been put out of focus.