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cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Started Jul 15, 2018 | Discussions thread
d3xmeister Veteran Member • Posts: 3,395
Re: cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Ruairi wrote:

Speaking emotionally, my heart sinks when I see a great shot in front of me and all I've got is a smartphone, be it a 20mp Lumia 950 or Samsung S7 (both widely rated as having good cameras).

Then it’s not a great shot.

Speaking as a senior graphic designer,

There you go, this explains your view

I have yet to use a photo taken from a phone in a commercial setting, and would not get sign-off on an image if it were taken from a phone.

And you won’t need to. Using a phone camera for commercial work doesn’t make sense, why would anyone not use tools made specifically for that task ? But this point does nothing against the argument that phones can take great photos.

Most phones will do all sorts of cheap tricks to make the photos appear better

Do you post process your photos ? Do you call that ,,cheap tricks,, ? The phone DSP does exacly that, only automatically. I shoot raw with my phone so do I qualify in the ,,no cheap tricks category ?

, these become far too obvious when viewing the images on calibrated 2k+ monitors.

I use 4K calibrated monitors. True some phone photos do look low quality, usually jpegs. I can process raw files that can look great on those monitors if taken and processed correctly.

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