cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Ben Herrmann wrote:

We're turning into a simplistic tech society where we view everything within the scale of cell phone screens. Folks read texts, email, browse the web, look at photos, or what have you...all on their mobile phones. So they become accustomed to this - it's part of modern-day living.

And granted, the images may look extremely sharp while looking at them on a mobile phone screen.

Now import most of those photos into Lightroom (or whatever you're using) to view those images on a screen - usually a 22 - 27" model PC screen. Now things have changed, haven't they. Many of the images have high blur levels (the product of one handed picture taking for the most part) - with some smearing of colors. An entirely different ball game now, isn't it!!!

But I do have to be honest here - some cell phones - i.e. my Samsung models - take surprisingly excellent images, with a superb color tonality, and very sharp for the genre - even when imported into my PC for viewing on my screen. I'm using an LG G7 now - a 16 MP model with IBIS - but I have to say, images taken with my older Samsung S5 (12 MP's) - once set to the finest JPG available within that model - can be strikingly impressive - provided you hold the phone steady while capturing the scene.

So as long as folks are intent (and content) on capturing and viewing images on their phones, then I guess there's nothing more to say. But for those of us who mean business - which is most of us - there's nothing like a "real camera."

Now I'm banking on the reality that within the next 5 - 10 years or so there will be mobile phones released with camera systems inside that will truly compete with higher end enthusiast digital cameras. That's technology for you - areas that never stop advancing.

The cell phone is like a Swiss knife , many functions but not good at anything, sometimes not even good for making telephone calls.

I maybe a dinosaur ,

I use a Garmin GPS with 20h of battery life and maps available of the grid and no roaming fees.

I use a Sony digital walkman that can carry 500 GB of high resolution music.

And I have cameras that can take a photo instantly and with good IQ.

I even use my thrusty HP 41 calculator and a flashlight.

I know these things will work.

All those functions are in the smart phone but at bad quality.

Tried to take photos of moving objects with the phone but photo object is long gone before I’m finished.