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The Cell Phones Are Coming for Us, Too!

Started 4 months ago | Photos thread
ken_in_nh Senior Member • Posts: 2,399
Re: The Cell Phones Are Coming for Us, Too!

Luisifer wrote:

ken_in_nh wrote:

Interesting to see the comments of the purists. Glad they can lug around many pounds of camera, tripod and lens in their macro shooting. Me? I'm glad to have a lightweight tool that takes pictures that are "good enough" to remind me of my adventures.

Here you hit the point. If the reason of taking photo is walking around at the first place.
But there is another kind of going outside. Not with walk reason but for getting photo (in the best case the good photo).

I would say that in the first case it is really useful to have mobile phone (but there is not reason to say that it has anything with macro). And in the second case it should be more conscious activity with technique.

For example from my experiences, i am walking around with mobile phone still in my pocked. Sometimes something or some place is intereseting so much that it push me come back with better equipment with many and many kilograms of weight. And for example returning is connected with looking to better light conditions too.

I suspect we agree.  More and more, I tend to take my camera kit on planned photo shoots only.  I no longer have the patience (or the weight tolerance) to take it on family outings, whether with (adult) daughter or with spouse, and they appreciate it.  For family outings, the smartphone does fine.

OTOH, at times I'll go to, for example, a botanic garden to shoot macro, and take full kit, including my tripod.  Spouse knows it will be a slow walk through the place!

What enabled this switch for me is the tremendous increase in quality of smartphone photos.  Compromises?  Sure.  It's frustrating at times to not have better control over focus point, for example.  And on my phone, raw is not (not really raw...) so I don't use it.  But the time and weight savings is worth it.

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