Forum: General Photography
05-10-2019, 10:17 PM
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Personally I find taking photos with a phone to be awkward at the very least. A rectangular block is nothing like an ergonomically suitable arrangement for a camera. I have a Galaxy A7 which is probably a long way from the best phone camera, but the quality of the resulting images is still a long way short of even my first DSLR. While the latest and greatest phones no doubt have better cameras, as others have pointed out, they also have prices to match and they will still only suit certain types of photography. The sales of DSLRs have been dropping for years, and even the sales of point and shoot cameras have probably crashed because of phone cameras. The vast majority of people are happy with a reasonable quality of image at a screen resolution and don't need more than that. Most people are taking happy snaps of themselves, friends and family or holiday destinations.
On the other hand there's still plenty of good reasons to want to use a "real" camera with good glass, resolution, low noise and wide dynamic range as well as the ability to easily adjust the way you take a photo to get a good result. Many people have responded to say that they take photos where a phone camera won't work - like sports, wildlife, astrophotography, macro photography. So the answer to the subject line is that some people still buy a "big" camera because they want to take photos that a phone camera can't (or at least can't with the same quality of results). I don't think that means they are rejecting phone cameras out of hand. It's just that they're choosing the right tool for the need that they have to fulfil.
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