rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Another side effect of this need to share all of their life's minutia is delayed traffic. I've observed that in recent years, cars tend to sit at the traffic light longer after it has turned green. I believe many millenials believe traffic lights are the states little gift to them so they have time to update their youtwittface status.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

I know several professional video shooters who have abandoned their dedicated video cameras for DSLRs. One thing most video cameras suffer from is the inability to create bokeh. They are just not designed to do that. Of course, the high-end digital cameras used to shoot motion pictures can do anything. They also cost a small fortune.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I've taken a few pictures with my cell phone. I guess it's for the novelty of it. The iPhone I have, I purchased for only one reason. It runs two apps that I find indispensable, expodev and holder. If it weren't for those two apps, I'd still be using a flip phone.
--Bob

Quixdraw Loc: x

Yup, you can skin a deer with a pocket knife, but a skinning knife works much better.
More "useful idiots" (all with phones) every day.

Mark7829 Loc: Calfornia

If you want to print, display, sell or publish your images, it is not going to come from an iPhone. While iPhones have displaced the point and shoot but not SLR, DSLR or HDSLR's.

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

Many people will opt for ease and convenience over quality and that is a bad thing. I gave my son my D90 if he would give his sister his D80. Asked my daughter about the D80 and she said it did not work right. After a lesson and some adjustments she came back with some fantastic photos. Her husband said the iphone takes better picture than the camera. My response you do not know what you are doing.
And he said you are probably right. She sent us an invitation to her daughters birthday party, included a photo taken on the trip and there is no way a phone could have done so well.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Indeed it does!

He did say it was low budget. Add the FX to bring it to life in post? 😉

JD750 Loc: SoCal

You daughter got the bug. But what the husband said is true for many people, they do not have the skill to use a DSLR nor do they want to learn. For them the camera phone does indeed take better pics. It's incredibly easy to use and it does a decent job. That's what they want.

Before digital, there were SLRs for the serious photographers, and also point and shoots for family pics, and remember the recyclable cameras you could buy at the grocery store? Those were popular because they filled a need. A simple camera anybody could use. And technology has brought that same thing to the masses in digital, in the cell phone camera.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

There's a sort of sad irony regarding indoor flower shows. Kinda like driving to a health club to walk on a treadmill.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

My counterpoint.

Of course you can print pictures from a phone camera. Some of the phone cameras have more resolution than some of the DSLRs. And I recently read an article on a popular photography web site, written by a photographer who is using his cell phone camera to make $. And publishing includes web publishing and there are certainly plenty of cell camera pics in that area.

FYI- I said cell phone cameras not iPhone. The iPhone is one of many cell phone cameras now. In fact my old school, backup cell phone, a flip top phone, has a camera.

The cell camera phone cameras have replaced the recyclable film cameras, and point and shoot film cameras, and point and shoot digital cameras.

I never said phone cameras had replaced DSLRs. But the DSLR market has not traditionally been a big cash cow for the manufacturers. That is a big loss of revenue for the entire industry. Nikon thinks this will lead more people to higher end cameras. Definitely true for some, but will that crowd replace the lost revenue from the masses who bought point and shoots? And cell phone cameras have been getting better and better. It's a dynamic market.

What is an HDSLR?

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Hear hear!

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Yes- I was guilty of that till I actually had a quality camera and lens kit to take photographs with rather than vacation snap shots.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

So you have tested the function! Lol.

I use my cell phone camera very frequently. At work I take many shots from white boards to test setups, copies of my notes, and the ubiquitous scope trace shots for use in my reports. When working on something, like a home repair project, I photograph the steps. On travel I photograph street signs and my hotel, and in airport parking lots I photograph the parking location sign.

None of those destined to be art photos. But I find the phone camera very useful.

Having said that, my go to serious camera is my D750, and N80, and my go to travel camera is my M43 kit. Note I said kit. Not camera. ;)

jcboy3

Smartphone cameras are quite good, and can produce quite good results. Not to mention the many post processing apps that can apply various effects (canvas, watercolor, etc). All very cheap and easy to use.

And the HDR apps allow you to take pictures in very difficult lighting conditions that were impossible with film.

And the phones are convenient and nearly always with you.

Below is an HDR shot with my iPhone. This would not be possible with P&S cameras from only a few years ago.

Marble Canyon Metal Works, HDR iPhone 6Plus

(Download)

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Nice shot and nice workshop