You Simply Cannot Make This Stuff Up: My wife who refuses to use a camera instead of a phone, who has excellent natural composition technique, better than mine, told me this story. Her...

coj Loc: NJ, USA

My wife who refuses to use a camera instead of a phone, who has excellent natural
composition technique, better than mine, told me this story. Her co-worker wanted to
buy a new phone. "Why?", my wife asked. She replied "Because all of my pictures are
blurry and yours and so-and-so's are not." I nearly died laughing.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Yes, my mother had a technique of jabbing the shoot button on her sophisticated Kodak Disk Camera. Her finger was faster than a threatened cobra... every photo was smeared. Also Composition was her photo crowning glory; tho she did not have any linage to France, she managed to decapitate many people.

kpsk_sony

To be very, very snobbishly condescending: The reason so many smart phone photos are of exceeding mediocrity is that the pholks taking the pictures are really just "phone-ees" and not fotographers!

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

Camera phones are the point and shoot of the twentieth century.

waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li

coj wrote:

My wife who refuses to use a camera instead of a phone, who has excellent natural
composition technique, better than mine, told me this story. Her co-worker wanted to
buy a new phone. "Why?", my wife asked. She replied "Because all of my pictures are
blurry and yours and so-and-so's are not." I nearly died laughing.

That's funny. My wife used to actually purposefully jerk the camera when she took a picture because she saw someone do it in a move one time and thought that was the right way. When she finally worked with me in the darkroom and learned how everything works she now takes better picture with her phone than I do with a DSLR. :D

Photog8 Loc: Morriston, FL

The joke in our family was, "Whose head is mom going to cut off next." Bless your soul, mom!

coj Loc: NJ, USA

All of these replies are funny as hell. Thx!!

mrtaxi Loc: Old Westbury NY, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Recently I went to a red carpet movie Premiere in Hollywood with wife who an actress. I was tempted to bring a FF camera and flash but did not because I was also going to be photographed with her on the the carpet with all the pro and Getty photographers. After we were photographed my wife was on the red carpet being photo with each of the stars of the movie and all I had was my 1day new iPhone 10 or x as it’s called so I used it to take about 50 pictures. Well the pictures were amazing for a camera phone, it really blew me away, its almost as good as my Sony RX100 mark iv. Quite impressed and the video is even better.

aschweik Loc: NE Ohio

My mom used to cut the heads off of everyone in her photos when we were growing up. When the pictures came back from the developer, we'd have to identify people by what clothing they had on, since there were no heads!

LarryFitz Loc: Beacon NY

dpullum wrote:

Yes, my mother had a technique of jabbing the shoot button on her sophisticated Kodak Disk Camera. Her finger was faster than a threatened cobra... every photo was smeared. Also Composition was her photo crowning glory; tho she did not have any linage to France, she managed to decapitate many people.

My wife is still unhappy that her Kodak Disk Camera broke and I could not buy her a new one, even though I worked at Kodak at that time.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Among my cameras, I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 phone with a wannabe camera. When I find myself with a photo opportunity and no "real camera" I use the Galaxy S7's "camera". I too have a hard time holding the phone still and poking the "go-button". That is until I found out that I can use both hands to keep the "camera" still and simply say "Smile" and the phone takes the picture. This works VERY Well for me producing some really sharp pics instead of missing a photo opportunity. Remember, just say "Smile".

coj wrote:

My wife who refuses to use a camera instead of a phone, who has excellent natural
composition technique, better than mine, told me this story. Her co-worker wanted to
buy a new phone. "Why?", my wife asked. She replied "Because all of my pictures are
blurry and yours and so-and-so's are not." I nearly died laughing.

StaneeRae Loc: Lincroft, NJ USA

Some are getting very nice images with an iPhone.
http://www.jerryghionis.com/the-wedding-of-josh-and-amber-select-shots-taken-with-the-iphone/

Spiney Loc: Reading, PA

If anyone is interested in making the most of the Smartphone cameras there’s a group on the web, Facebook, Instagram, and a Podcast called Tiny Shutter Podcast. On Instagram they are @tinyshutter. They cover the techniques, accessories, and APPS. With the correct app you can shoot manual and record RAW files and get some pretty amazing images.

I upgraded from an iPhone 5 that was falling apart to an iPhone 8+ I recently purchased a tripod adapter and remote release for it.

leftj Loc: Texas

LWW wrote:

Camera phones are the point and shoot of the twentieth century.

Uhhh - we're in the twenty first century.

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

leftj wrote:

Uhhh - we're in the twenty first century.

Think you might have a good point there.