Smartphone camera vs Canon 650D with shocking result

MikeJ9116 wrote:

The problem is that people like us are few and far between. Most people find a smart phone's image quality just fine and rightfully so for what they use their photos for. We live in a world where instant gratification rules and that is one thing a smart phone delivers in spades.

Very true, and I guess each to his own!

Like I compared way earlier in the thread, it's like some who can't or don't want to learn to create/cook a meal, find a frozen premade dinner better than what they can make in the kitchen, so for them, the frozen dinner is better. But for those who enjoy making and learning to make REALLY good meals, preparing and creating a meal yields far superior food then any frozen premade meal ever could.

I use that analogy as it actually rings true for me. Many years ago, me and my wife would go out to dinner for 'good food', a homemade burger, or steak was 'good' but not as good as a restaurant. That bugged me, so over the years I learned how to make foods that are way better than any restaurant we ever went to. I grind my own meat for burgers, chili, tacos, I can make a steak that is way better than a steakhouse, etc.

With photography, learning to use a DSLR, (lens choice, aperture, exposure, comp), and how to process it after can always beat any image my iphone might take and process 'its way'.

Plus, phones take the artistry out of the equation. 2 people with iphones take the same photo, the photos look the same. It's Apple's version of your picture. But, two people with DSLR's take the same photo in raw and process it, now you have 2 different renderings that reflect the photographers feelings, emphasis, mood, etc. It becomes 'art'. Just like people who carve, do wood working, make their own clothes, etc.