iPhone vs Nikon: I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with...

Amandy

I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with iPhone top don't look any clearer than the other. Can you tell a difference? I know both days I was dealing with light issues.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Make a 16x20 of each image and lets talk.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Not that it matters, but Nikon what?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Kmgw9v wrote:

Not that it matters, but Nikon what?

(camera)

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

Your first shot seem to be a lot warmer than your second. Other than that I think you need to blow them up quite a bit to tell the difference.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Amandy wrote:

I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with iPhone top don't look any clearer than the other. Can you tell a difference? I know both days I was dealing with light issues.

Post them again and click "Store original." When you post something online, especially here, it's not quite the same as making a large print or seeing the original on a good monitor.

Whether you using a good camera or a cell phone, you can get very good pictures, but a lot depends on the ability of the photographer, and you apparently have good ability.

EDIT: Doing a Ctrl-+ enlargement, the iPhone (top) shots look better than the Nikon.

Amandy

Nikon D5300. I did use photo editing on the photos so that's why the one looks warmer than the other.

ELNikkor

When lighting is like that, I choose "Cloudy" or "Shade" for the White Balance on my D5100 and get better originals. I like the warmer lighting better, if all your making is 8x10s, go with those regardless of the medium.

Stu Smith

Two different lighting situations. You can't compare the two. Shoot same exact image with both then compare.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Amandy wrote:

I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with iPhone top don't look any clearer than the other. Can you tell a difference? I know both days I was dealing with light issues.

Iphones and the newest versions of Galaxy etc. take very good photos if you keep them under 8x10. If you enlarge them beyond that (especially to 10x16 or 16x20 they can't compare to a DX sensor much less an FX sensor. (Note the Nikon D5300 is a DX sensor). Cell phones are perfectly acceptable for photos that will never be enlarged and can make great 3x5 or 5x7 images. Just don't blow them up for display much beyond 8x10 and put them on the wall.

leftj Loc: Texas

Amandy wrote:

I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with iPhone top don't look any clearer than the other. Can you tell a difference? I know both days I was dealing with light issues.

You can't compare pictures taken of totally different settings on different days.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Nobody will deny the simplicity and convenience of an iphone. The built in camera can take beautiful shots that can rival similar shots from a good camera at these sizes. As Romanticf16 has indicated when you begin to enlarge it is when quality begins to deteriorate.

insman1132 Loc: Southwest Florida

You can certainly get very nice small pics from the current iPhones. And it is nice to have a camera with you at all times. But I think you will find a camera will provide you with more flexibility as to what you can do with/to those images in the future. Certainly enlarging is one of those things. But I am in your corner. I think the iPhones do a great job on snapshots and I understand that huge improvements are still to come in the cameras in the next iPhones issued.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Amandy wrote:

I need an opinion from someone with a good computer. From looking at these pictures with my computer and iPhone these pictures taken with the Nikon bottom and with iPhone top don't look any clearer than the other. Can you tell a difference? I know both days I was dealing with light issues.

If you can't tell the difference, why do you care? {is there an underlying purpose to this?}

added: if your purpose truly is to get unbiased opinions, then you need to present it as a "blind" test - "do you like group 1 or group 2?". Otherwise true responses are buried under "I like Nikon" vs "I like iPhone" garbage.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

As long as you work within the iPhone camera's technical limitations, it can certainly generate very nice (even professional-looking) images.
It will often be pointed out that you cannot blow up phone camera images to 16x20 successfully, which is probably true. However, many photographers don't even own a printer capable of printing that large, or are particularly interested printing to such size. And some don't seem to ever print anything at all.