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cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Started Jul 15, 2018 | Discussions thread
Aaron801 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,900
Cell phones are...

... Incredible tools for how tiny they are and getting better all the time. Still even with the best cell phones, I see that when you blow up the images a little bit there isn't the kind of detail, smooth transitions and dynamic range (and several other things that I won't get into here) that you get with a bigger camera, even a 1" compact, let alone a larger format. Though some cell phones do offer a degree of manual control, the interface is never as good as a dedicated camera, especially one with lots of physical controls. Add all that to the fact that focal lengths are pretty limited on a cell phone and it seems pretty obvious to me that even though cell phones are really incredible tech and capable of really fine images within certain parameters, that there is still very much a role for dedicated cameras...

If there was a cell phone that had the image quality of say a 1" camera, had a great interface with controls that make it easy to change settings on the fly, had a zoom that went from wide to mid tele (I don't really need any more than that) with the kind of flexibility in aperture/DOF that we've come to expect from our larger cameras... so that you could shoot a formal portrait with it or shoot a band in a dimly lit club (and still not get really noisy images), I'd definitely want one! I'm not so hung up on the form-function of typical digital cameras and would love to have something that can produce really high quality images in a variety of situations that would fit in my pocket. Cell phones allow us to capture any moment as we pretty much always have these things with us... but they don't necessarily allow us to make images on par with what we can do with our dedicated cameras, so there's still some distance to go on order for cell phones to truly be considered as a replacement for dedicated cameras...

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