You need two cameras for Travel
May 15, 2017 13:50:58 #
I use a Nikon D750 which is an excellent low light camera. However, another photographer I was traveling with had similar, but Cannon, camera as well as a newly purchased iPhone.
For use in particularly dimly lit castles and museums I wished I would have had a new phone too. The phone gave her great exposures, easily, and since it is fundamentally a wide angle lens it was perfectly adequate. Any cropping can be done in post processing.
I recommend the traveler take a good phone camera along. You will get those dimly lit photos you want more easily and perhaps better exposed.
For use in particularly dimly lit castles and museums I wished I would have had a new phone too. The phone gave her great exposures, easily, and since it is fundamentally a wide angle lens it was perfectly adequate. Any cropping can be done in post processing.
I recommend the traveler take a good phone camera along. You will get those dimly lit photos you want more easily and perhaps better exposed.
May 15, 2017 13:55:17 #
rleonetti wrote:
I use a Nikon D750 which is an excellent low light... (show quote)
Well for those of us with phones with mediocre cameras, it might be more economical to purchase a decent point and shoot, bridge camera or perhaps another DSLR, like the excellent Nikon D3300.
May 15, 2017 14:55:36 #
I have 2 bulky 12.5lbs camera's, 1DX and a 5D MKIII with a battery pack. They go with me where ever I travel. One long lens and one short lens, not recommended to change lenses in the elements. I put them on a self made camera vest, looks like my flak jacket, using dog leashes and quick connects to hold them on my shoulders. I just grab whatever camera the shot calls for and shoot.
Cell phones are nice in a pinch, but there is nothing like a real camera, for now.
Cell phones are nice in a pinch, but there is nothing like a real camera, for now.
May 16, 2017 06:16:19 #
If you think a phone will take a better pictures than a D750, then you do not know how to use you camera. Playing photographer with a phone just makes you a picture taker. Get rid of your D750.
May 16, 2017 06:58:41 #
May 16, 2017 07:17:58 #
rleonetti wrote:
I use a Nikon D750 which is an excellent low light... (show quote)
Good idea. You don't have a phone? Not good in dim light?
May 16, 2017 08:11:29 #
This is why I shoot m4/3 large enough to print 30x40, small enough to almost fit in my pocket (depending on lens choice).
May 16, 2017 08:59:06 #
I agree with Clint. I usually travel with my two Olympus M43 bodies. I seldom use my smart phone for photography although I can understand it could be convenient at times.
May 16, 2017 09:09:31 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
It is surprising how well my iPhone 7+ can handle low light using the low light settings on the ProCamera app. Sometimes it feels genuinely liberating to leave the Nikon D800 in the hotel room and stroll around with just the iPhone. I've surprised myself with the quality of some of the shots.
May 16, 2017 10:04:26 #
berchman wrote:
It is surprising how well my iPhone 7+ can handle low light using the low light settings on the ProCamera app. Sometimes it feels genuinely liberating to leave the Nikon D800 in the hotel room and stroll around with just the iPhone. I've surprised myself with the quality of some of the shots.
I agree it can feel liberating, but too often I have found that later, when I look at the photos closely, I find some "camera shake" that basically ruins the shot for me. I have a slight tremor that rears its ugly head whenever I try to press my Samsung S5's shutter button.
Instead, if I am on a trip and I want to feel "liberated" from my DSLR, I grab my little Panasonic Lumix ZS50 - which in many ways is far more capable than my phone - smaller, (but a bit thicker), has fabulous stabilization, a wider angle (even with the phone held horizontally) and has fantastic telephoto capabilities.
May 16, 2017 10:38:36 #
May 16, 2017 11:54:15 #
Here are a few. It should give you an idea. Not sure for anyone else, but it works for me. Just needed a few modifications.
May 16, 2017 12:15:54 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
Djedi wrote:
I agree it can feel liberating, but too often I ha... (show quote)
The iPhone 7+ has optical image stabilization in its wide angle lens. Anyway, tremor can be conquered by using the volume control on the earbuds to trip the shutter.
May 16, 2017 13:18:42 #
rleonetti wrote:
I use a Nikon D750 which is an excellent low light... (show quote)
I always shoot with at least a couple of cameras, but I've never owned, or used, or ever will, a phone for photography!
May 16, 2017 13:27:45 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
cthahn wrote:
If you think a phone will take a better pictures than a D750, then you do not know how to use you camera. Playing photographer with a phone just makes you a picture taker. Get rid of your D750.
Does this mean that the National Geographic photo editor that when to the museum on her last day in Spain with only her phone was not able to shoot professional photos? Do you think it might be the person behind the camera, be it a FF, 4/3rds, P&S, or cellphone, that can take a professional shot using their knowledge of the camera at hand? Or do you put anyone that shoots with a cellphone as someone that just takes snap shots?
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