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Forum: General Photography
05-10-2019, 03:51 PM
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I have a Google Pixel and played with a Pixel 2 (decided to wait for price to come down on Pixel 3 or something better as the improvements are not huge between these models). Granted there are better mobile cameras available already (have compared images with a number of friends phones) but its far from night and day and I don't think they would change my current viewpoint.
Mobile cameras are certainly handy to have around and they now probably fill 100% of the needs of over 80% of people - the demise of compact cameras should not be a surprise. And personally I like the convenience of always having a mobile camera on me.
But for me comparing my pixel to say the K-1 is like comparing the merits of chalk versus cheese:
1. Personally I'm struggling to think of a single mobile shot that I would be happy to print in a bigger size - as soon as you start to play with the images in PP, there are considerable limitations.
2. Comparatively mobiles, although improved, still suck in low light - something I do quite a bit of.
3. The K-1 is enjoyable to use - its a tool focused solely on photography
4. Depth of field control. Yes many modern mobiles have creative background blur affects, but currently the results are pretty average - will be interesting to see where this goes though.
The other point to note is, as good as a modern micro 4/3 is these days, there is an even bigger difference between mobile and modern APS-C or FF.
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