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cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Started Jul 15, 2018 | Discussions thread
C Sean Veteran Member • Posts: 3,423
Re: Mobile Photography and Art

I think there are two factors we need to look into which explain why the general photography market is shrinking and why mobile phones are killing off cameras.

  1. Social media, love it or hate it but the fact is it is an abused tool and people unhealthily competing with each other. One of the best way to update your page is to take photographs and upload them, however people used mobile phones to do selfies and a mobile phone is pocketable. P.S I hate Fakebook. 
  2.  The other thing is the marketing behind mobile phones and their cameras. Very often they try to make out it's a next gen camera and with it features you're competing with the big boys. There was one adverting in a London Paper/Metro, win a mobile phone competition and you can go on a photographic African safari with your phone. The reason why I went from compact to MFT because I wanted a camera with better IQ than my compact. I knew I wasn't getting an increase of IQ by updating my year old compact camera and the same applies with mobile phones. Also I seen multiple situations of people blowing up their pictures with their phones because they didn't bring a camera with a long zoom lens.
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