cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

juncction wrote:

The reason why cellphones today are taking over isn't just because of their compact nature (though it is one of the reasons), the bigger reason is that it has become a lifestyle that is supported by MANY multi-billion dollar companies that have been pouring countless dollars into it, thus making it become a staple household product.

Everyone wants to cash in on the popularity of cell phones.

Except for camera companies.

Despite being worried about cell phones eating into the camera market they do a poor job when it comes to making it easy to share images from a camera.

It wouldn't be hard or expensive to make image sharing from your camera just as easy as sharing an image you took with your phone.  All that would be required is putting Bluetooth in the camera and having an app just for sharing pictures.  Once paired the camera and phone would automatically connect when both are turned on and in range.  Open the app and it would display thumbnails of all the recent pictures on the phone.  Select the pictures you want to share and press the share icon.  Sharing pictures from the camera would be exactly the same and just as easy as sharing pictures taken by the phone except you would have to open the camera sharing app instead of the standard gallery.

I have never used the Olympus app but the Panasonic image app is clunky compared to other apps.  And neither of my cameras support Bluetooth.

To share an image you have to turn on WiFi on the camera, go into the the settings on the phone to switch to the cameras WiFi which disables internet access on the phone, start the image app, wait for it to connect, switch to the transfer images screen, select the images you want to share, transfer those images to your phone, turn off WiFi on the camera so your phone will connect to one that has internet access, open the standard gallery app on the phone and share the image.

Really Panasonic????  Is that the best you can do???

I rarely post pictures on social media so I would want the ability to turn Bluetooth off if it significantly shortened battery life.  And even if sharing was much easier you would still have to convince people to buy and carry a separate camera.  But some people that prefer dedicated cameras and also like to post to social media could be persuaded to keep using dedicated cameras if sharing was easier.