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Forum: General Photography
05-10-2019, 07:54 PM
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Smartphones take a picture of what you CAN see. A good camera lens combination takes a picture of what you WANT to see.
Smartphones have a field of view very similar to your natural eye sight. The pictures are heavily processed to be pleasing to the viewer, compressed dynamic range, saturated colors etc. And people complain about the Pentax use of the accelerator chip.
Our brains compensate for our eyes which is why we can see into shadows on a bright sunny day or why the beautiful colors of a bird can sometimes be hard to get right in a photograph. Smartphones try to re-produce our brains interpretation of our vision. I know there can be many other settings on smartphones, even a raw image setting on some. But how many people use anything other than 'Auto"?
A lot of testing has gone into a smartphone camera to produce photos 'as if you where there'. Great for when you are on holidays and you want to text message the picture back home to friends, "this is where we are today"
Suppose you are photographing a church in Rome, you can stand outside with your smartphone snap whatever fits into the field of view of the phone. But the picture you really WANT is of one of the stained glass windows high up on the church.
Your choices are, the two finger zoom on the smartphone picture with the associated comment about 'it's a bit grainy but you can still see how beautiful it is, you should have been there' or take the picture with a proper camera zoom combination and get a full resolution 24-36mp photo and say ' look at how beautiful the detail in that window is'
For most people the two finger zoom in good enough because photographs have become throw away items since becoming digital.
For those that don't want to record what just what they see, but want to record the detail in what they see there will always be more versatile photographic equipment.
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