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Why the iPhone 6 is my Camera of Choice

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Pantyhose Bandit said:
There are very few niches now where smartphones don't excellent.
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You've got that backwards. Smartphones are only good at one thing - good light, deep DOF shots at around 30mm equivalent.
Pantyhose Bandit said:
Low light is one, action is another.
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Wide angle, telephoto, fast shutter speed, slow shutter speed, shallow DOF, low-noise, high resolution, high image quality...
Pantyhose Bandit said:
But... The number of people buying cameras specifically because of low light and action are going to be minimal. Smartphones do 90% of peoples photography perfectly adequately.
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That's because they don't use them at all for 90% of the things they would if their cameras could do the job.
Pantyhose Bandit said:
I'm documenting the progress of my conversion of a school bus into a motorhome. Do I haul out a DSLR, fiddle around with lenses, tripods and lighting?
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What are you talking about? DSLRs can shoot without tripods and lighting in 1/100th the light that a cell phone can.
Pantyhose Bandit said:
The justification for spending lots of money on camera gear has gone. Yes, you can buy a camera with 59,000,000 megapixels and a 9000mm f0.1 lens that can pick out the pimples on a flea's backside, 30 miles away but viewed on a 10x8 or a monitor, who cares and who can actually see it anyway?
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Really?

So, at low-res screen-resolution, you can't tell the difference between these two shots, one taken by a camera a little better than a cell phone, the other by an SLR? Really?

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Not a single one of the 7 things the author likes about the iPhone is about photography.

Why I like eating at MacDonald's: all my friends are there, they have a TV set, they're all over town, it's cheap, their menus are easy to read, they're always open, I love their ads. Not a word about eating.
 
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ludwik123 said:
Mark B. said:
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LifeIsAVerb said:
And there was this: "Lining myself up in front of the military or RCMP blockades also would be just so incumbersome without my iPhone 6."
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I found that very funny. I would never line myself up to the military with an iPhone 6.

First consider the cost of the iphone 6.

And more importantly the cost to one's personal safety.

I would be using my cheap ( Quater of iphone price) pocket compact from a safe distance, The sony HX50 with 30X optical zoom for both stills and video.
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The operative part of the quote for me, and the reason i posted it, was incumbersome. For someone making a pretense of being a writer, the poor level of literacy (there were other examples, too) was striking.

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The age of the internet has ushered in the death of the written word. Not that I'm perfect by any means, but if I were to write a blog I'd certainly want to take my time and get it as correct as possible.

Mark
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I admit that my level of literacy is poor because my first language was not English and I just picked it up several years behind children of my age. So I find it difficult to criticise other people's grammar and spelling.
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Well, if I were to publish a blog in English I would darn well make sure it was grammatically correct. Wouldn't you do the same if publishing something in your native language?
 
Brad Bohland said:
Not a single one of the 7 things the author likes about the iPhone is about photography.

Why I like eating at MacDonald's: all my friends are there, they have a TV set, they're all over town, it's cheap, their menus are easy to read, they're always open, I love their ads. Not a word about eating.
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I sort of disagree. I think she's taken the components of photography and segmented them.

But it seems the audience is slacker iphone users rather than photographers who care more about light and composition than the gee-whiz factor.

I agree camera phones can be a legitimate tool for photographers but they are limited. If smart phones were as good (and needed the same skill set) as dedicated cameras there wouldn't contests for phone photography.
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Wrong comparison, it seems to me. iPhone 6 takes photos, but it's not really a camera, per se. A smartphone doesn't have the resolution of a camera, and as a recording tool, it lacks the technical capabilities of much cheaper compact cameras. I'd argue that the iPhoneography is a different visual medium, entirely. It's a much more flexible and powerful creative tool than any camera. I've seen and created images with an iPhone and a couple of app workflows you can't conceive of doing as easily with a camera and Photoshop. In fact a lot of the combinations of apps in an iPhone workflow are almost impossible to replicate in a traditional digital camera/post scenario. Just take a look at the possibilities of Hipstamatic, and that's only one of thousands of apps equally unique. I still prefer shooting with my EM-1, any day. But an iPhone takes creativity to another level.
 
ludwik123 said:
Mark B. said:
ludwik123 said:
ludwik123 said:
LifeIsAVerb said:
And there was this: "Lining myself up in front of the military or RCMP blockades also would be just so incumbersome without my iPhone 6."
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I found that very funny. I would never line myself up to the military with an iPhone 6.

First consider the cost of the iphone 6.

And more importantly the cost to one's personal safety.

I would be using my cheap ( Quater of iphone price) pocket compact from a safe distance, The sony HX50 with 30X optical zoom for both stills and video.
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The operative part of the quote for me, and the reason i posted it, was incumbersome. For someone making a pretense of being a writer, the poor level of literacy (there were other examples, too) was striking.

.
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The age of the internet has ushered in the death of the written word. Not that I'm perfect by any means, but if I were to write a blog I'd certainly want to take my time and get it as correct as possible.

Mark
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I admit that my level of literacy is poor because my first language was not English and I just picked it up several years behind children of my age. So I find it difficult to criticise other people's grammar and spelling.
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I try not to either, but in this case the OP chose to publish a blog in English. If I published a blog in German and didn't really try to make it grammatically correct I'd fully expect to be corrected, and yes, likely criticized.
 
If I had only two choices in this world for a camera, my iPhone6 or my 2002 model Nikon D100/18-70mm lens, I'd pick the Nikon. But then, I couldn't post this reply from my Nikon.
 
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Dennis said:
Folks, the OP is the author of the article (or at "scubagal" is the person listed on the "About" page at that website). Her contributions to the forum consist of links to ilovehatephoto.com to try to draw clicks. It's just spam.
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Several people associated with that site spam the forums frequently and the mods/admins allow them to do that.
 
Here's a nice phone shot.

All a photographer needs is a lens and a sensor.

(I'm a networking fool,

Facebook and Twitter.

Give me a call,

make me sparkle like glitter.)



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J A C S said:
Several people associated with that site spam the forums frequently and the mods/admins allow them to do that.
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It wouldn't be so bad if they actually contributed to the forums any other time, but they only post when they want to draw traffic ... they suck DPR readers in with a "what do you think of this article ?" topic, then never check back in. Anwyay, I'll just have to add the OP to my growing 'ignore' list (awful lot of new trolls lately, like the guy today who's first post is "why would anybody buy a DSLR ?" Sigh ...
 
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