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cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete

Started Jul 15, 2018 | Discussions thread
martok80 Junior Member • Posts: 31
Re: cell phones making M4/3 and DSLRs obsolete
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While my MFT camera will certainly capture a much better image in almost every way (even my wife *generally* agrees), there are some distinct advantages of cell phones:

* People generally have them in their pockets

* It's oh so easy to backup your photos and share them with friends, family.  So much simpler than using the flashair card I have in my E-PM2

* Pictures are automatically GPS tagged

* Some cellphones (Google Pixel, modern iPhones) quite acceptable pictures nowadays (much better than even 3-4 years ago)

Also, this may be my wife, but she is used to the fisheye type selfie look and gets self conscious with more reasonable focal lengths.  Sometimes she insists I take a picture of her with a low-end cell phone specifically.

Anyhow, the pocketability factor may be an intrinsic difference between real cameras and cell phones, but some of the shareability issues absolutely could be resolved by camera manufacturers.  An Olympus MFT that ran Android and had a sim card would be pretty nifty.

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