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Recommended Android Phone for Photographer Not Interested in Phone Camera
Aug 20, 2017
OK, so my subject line may sound odd, but here's the real explanation. I enjoy photography as a hobbyist. When I want to take a usable photograph, I will likely do so with a P&S digital camera (currently using Canon G3 X and G9 X). I also, like many others, always have a smart phone with me and am certainly willing to pull it out to take a photo if nothing else is handy and I wasn't planning to shoot (or I would at least have my G9 X with me). In other words, I'm generally willing to carry a dedicated camera when I think I'll want it, and I'm willing to settle for shots from a phone if I happen not to have an actual camera with me. I don't think of my phone as a camera, but I certainly understand that it serves that function when needed.
So here's my dilemma. I'm not planning to make changes in my camera hardware in the near future. I'm contemplating upgrading my phone. I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and am considering getting a used/refurbished Nexus 6P as my next phone, largely because of its alleged "pure Android" features. Buying a Pixel is a little out of reach. I've tried to find other potential phones, but either Google is failing me, or I am failing Google. Try searching for a phone for people not interested in how amazing the phone camera is. Google outsmarts me and shows me phones with amazing cameras. (I'm simplifying, of course, but I hope you get the gist.)
If I view the camera as a secondary but occasionally useful feature in a phone, but I want a better phone for other reasons, what phone am I actually looking for? Or what search string should I be using to get there? Of course, it wouldn't kill me to end up with a phone that actually happens to have a great camera, but that is not my primary goal in this quest. Are you using a phone that works great for you as a phone in a photographer's pocket, whether or not it is a phone a photographer wants to take a photo with?
Thanks for reading and musing along with me.
Dan
Olympus Stylus Tough TG-870
Canon G5 X II
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