Better IQ and better control. I make heavy use of a compact camera -- Canon G7XmkII. My G7 meets my minimum requirements for bringing home a photo:
Eye-level viewfinders, articulating LCDs, real physical controls, real optical zooms, larger sensor areas, action-freezing and bounceable Xenon flashes, and built-in tripod sockets. Plus, a sense of accomplishment that's missing with phones.
I enjoy the shooting process more and can get better results than my phone produces. Even if I had a high end phone that could match the results, the process would be boring.
I carry both my RX100vii and iPhone 14 with me.
It's all in the user's head for the most part. They mostly provide no benefit or road blocks.
Any camera could take that photo. The full size image is 48mp so I suspect it was taken with one of those 48mp smartphone cameras. That said at full size the quality is very poor so this photo would be better reduced to 12mp to save hard drive space.It's all in the user's head for the most part. They mostly provide no benefit or road blocks.
What camera did I use to make this image? My Rx100, my cell phone, my Olympus E-m1 or Nikon 850?
Which camera would have allowed me to make it or not allowed me to make it?
Incorrect, but you demonstrate the point of the pointlessness to all this.The full size image is 48mp so I suspect it was taken with one of those 48mp smartphone cameras. That said at full size the quality is very poor so this photo would be better reduced to 12mp to save hard drive space.It's all in the user's head for the most part. They mostly provide no benefit or road blocks.
What camera did I use to make this image? My Rx100, my cell phone, my Olympus E-m1 or Nikon 850?
Which camera would have allowed me to make it or not allowed me to make it?
How could it be incorrect? None of the cameras mentioned shoot 48mp, unless you used some type of digital zoom which usually produces poor results like this.Incorrect, but you demonstrate the point of the pointlessness to all this.The full size image is 48mp so I suspect it was taken with one of those 48mp smartphone cameras. That said at full size the quality is very poor so this photo would be better reduced to 12mp to save hard drive space.It's all in the user's head for the most part. They mostly provide no benefit or road blocks.
What camera did I use to make this image? My Rx100, my cell phone, my Olympus E-m1 or Nikon 850?
Which camera would have allowed me to make it or not allowed me to make it?
I disagree. It depends on the type of photography and what you plan to do with it. For example, smartphones are terrible sports cameras. If you put a 24mm lens on your Nikon it also would be a terrible sports camera but at least it can be made a good one with the right lens. Nothing will make a smartphone a good sports/action/wildlife camera.
That argument doesn't hold water when you consider the whole spectrum of photography. Old cameras with glass emulsions were suitable only for subjects that did not move. I'm afraid you are taking only your opinion and use cases when you make such statements without regard to how others use their cameras.
Sure glad Nick Dale, Isaac Grant, Jack Zhi and Peter Cavanagh do pay attention to the gear they use and don't think just any camera can take the photos.
www.nickdalephotography.com
www.isaacgrantphotography.com
www.petercavanagh.us
The greatest advantage of a compact camera (or any camera) is that its not a smart phone. Those things are far too smart and have come to own the brains and behaviours of billions of people.
Ah... so what we can say is that photography can be judged by a wide range of criteria, not just pixel peeping. Yes, I would agree.
Of course, they would do the best they could with what was available. But saying that tools don't matter is old tired nonsense. The arts require tools, a musician needs an instrument, a ceramicist needs a wheel and glazes and a kiln, a painter needs paint, etc. You think a concert guitarist is going to Walmart to shop for a guitar?
We are close on agreement but what separates us the use of extremes as examples.
McDonalds sells 6.48 million burgers every day. Enough said. Popularity is meaningless.In another thread here Flicker reveals the top 10 cameras used for the pictures posted on the site, with only one "real" camera even making the top 10. Flicker boosts a pretty well regarded photo enthusiast user base with a sprinkling of professionals and semi professionals, and something such as this thread where people are pooing a high end cell phone doesn't have enough quality over a high end compact camera... well the high end compact camera doesn't even make this list yet 9 cell phones do.
