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May 18, 2016 20:07:24   #
charles brown Loc: Tennesse
 
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.

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May 18, 2016 20:35:07   #
Leitz Loc: Solms
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


Small odds. Every one of those phones has a camera.

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May 18, 2016 21:15:09   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


I will at the fifth birthday party of my wife's grandson this coming Sunday. I will be the only one with a DSLR, fighting for shots through a crowd of 40-50 smartphones in front of me. No problem--I am used to it, and it is what it is.

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May 18, 2016 22:25:56   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
It is called going with the flow.
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.

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May 18, 2016 22:27:09   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


You might be the only one with a DSLR but you won't be the only one with a camera. Modern phones take very good pictures and they are perfect for people who want to capture family moments but don't want to have to learn to use a complex camera.

So have fun, take some shots of the kids, and show them the advantages of owning and knowing how to use a DSLR.

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May 18, 2016 23:17:35   #
rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA
 
Sign of the times? I don't know... a few decades ago, many would have been using all-automatic cameras, including disposables for such an event. Someone showing up to a casual family gathering armed with an SLR camera wasn't a typical scenario in most families. Now people use phone cameras instead of the compact automatic film cameras. Not much has really changed when you think about it!

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May 18, 2016 23:52:04   #
LarryFB Loc: Depends where our RV is parked
 
rook2c4 wrote:
Sign of the times? I don't know... a few decades ago, many would have been using all-automatic cameras, including disposables for such an event. Someone showing up to a casual family gathering armed with an SLR camera wasn't a typical scenario in most families. Now people use phone cameras instead of the compact automatic film cameras. Not much has really changed when you think about it!


How true this is!! The only difference is that a couple of decades ago, maybe 20% of the people attending would have a camera, now the number is probably 90% or morel


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May 19, 2016 01:16:59   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.

I was just at a local minor league team game. A very family friendly venue, they had a chorus from a local elementary school sing the National Anthem behind home plate. There must have been 20 or 30 parents pressed against the net, every one of them taking photos like mad with with their smartphone or tablet. Not a dslr or even a mirrorless, 4/3s or point & shoot to be seen.

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May 19, 2016 05:43:14   #
wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


This election year shows just how far things have changed. When the candidates like Trump or Hillary are at a rally, all you see is a sea of cellphones and tablets held up in the air, with maybe one or two cameras, taking pictures or videos of the candidates. It has become a cellphone world.

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May 19, 2016 06:14:18   #
CO
 
It's unfortunate that convenience has priority over the quality of images for many shooters. When people started shooting digital it bothered me to see a lot of people using the machine gun approach to photography. When we all shot film, we took the time to craft our photos carefully. The people on this forum are good photographers though and still craft photos carefully. Now with cellphones and tablets quality is no more.

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May 19, 2016 06:57:26   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


Years ago, it was unusual to see someone taking pictures with a phone. Now it's the camera that's the odd one. Unless you are at an event or location where photography is important, you will see mostly phones and tablets, rather than cameras.

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May 19, 2016 07:29:43   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
For the average person, a camera's a camera. If it gets the job done, that's all that matters. What does not matter is the kind of camera. We like to play with big toys; that's our prerogative. Last Monday night at my granddaughter's National Honor Society candlelight ceremony, I took some shots with my DSLR in the auditorium. After the ceremony, I stowed the thing and happily shot in the reception area with my iPhone. It worked just fine in that setting.

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May 19, 2016 08:11:46   #
WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio
 
CO wrote:
It's unfortunate that convenience has priority over the quality of images for many shooters. When people started shooting digital it bothered me to see a lot of people using the machine gun approach to photography. When we all shot film, we took the time to craft our photos carefully. The people on this forum are good photographers though and still craft photos carefully. Now with cellphones and tablets quality is no more.


Quality is crystal clear on a lot of phones

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May 19, 2016 08:12:57   #
WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio
 
jaymatt wrote:
For the average person, a camera's a camera. If it gets the job done, that's all that matters. What does not matter is the kind of camera. We like to play with big toys; that's our prerogative. Last Monday night at my granddaughter's National Honor Society candlelight ceremony, I took some shots with my DSLR in the auditorium. After the ceremony, I stowed the thing and happily shot in the reception area with my iPhone. It worked just fine in that setting.



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May 19, 2016 08:22:18   #
dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl
 
charles brown wrote:
Going to my grandson's birthday party this saturday. He will be 5 years old. Going to take my DSLR. What do you think the odds are that I will be the only one with a camera? Everyone else will be using a smartphone. Just a thought.


AND, you will end up being the "designated photographer" and everyone (even those with smartphones) will want you to send them copies of your photos.

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