bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I moved to a retirement resort. One of my new "oldster" friends worked hard and long hours all her life. Now retired, she likes to take pictures. The only camera she has is her iPhone and the only "computer" she has is an iPad. Recently she and her husband took their first ever trip outside the USA. She came home from Spain with a phone full of wonderful, well composed photos.

If you show her a real camera, her eyes glaze over with apparent fear and confusion.

The retirement resort has a monthly art exhibit and she wants to hang a couple. I offered to help with the prints because I have a Canon Pro-100.

The ego in me demanded I show her how to remove telephone poles, wires and tourists with my Lightroom/Photoshop stuff. She said, "My phone can do that too. I have SnapSeed and an eraser tool." (I don't know what her eraser app actually is.)

Damned if she didn't do it faster and better than I could. And, even with her several versions old iPhone, prints at 12.5" by 16" to fit her pre cut mats were good.

(We invented an odd workflow. She worked the image, emailed it to me, I imported into Lightroom Classic and went straight to the Print module.)

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

Another photographer is born.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Looks like Apple is trying to replace us.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Don't know what you're complaining about. It sounds like she did do it faster and better than you could, so you're not damned.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

If she can do it faster and better, then she is apparently more efficient at editing images than you. At least when it comes to removing unwanted objects in an image.

Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south

They already have....

steve49 Loc: massachusetts

Phone editing tools are decent and getting better all the time.
It is a battlefield for the camera phone companies and they are throwing a lot of energy into the camera portion.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Cell phones are the younger generation's go-to option. As they get older, they will have no need for DSLR's. They will have a very limited knowledge of the camera and all the gear you have to schlep around. They take the picture/video share it and put it back in their pocket and off they go. When they travel, they have no concerns that a TSA employee might touch their precious camera/lenses. They take it out of their pocket put in in the tray and move on.
Camera sales are declining. Someone will have to bite the bullet regarding DSLR's and merge. They can each keep their peripheral business.

Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south

All things, fade away...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, there are always alternatives. I can't believe what my son is able to do with Paint (not sure which Paint). He can add and remove things and backgrounds, replace heads, change colors - anything.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

iPhones are "real cameras" that don’t look like cameras. What do you call a doorbell camera? My dentist takes pictures of my teeth with a small dental camera. What’s in a name?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yeah, we can do a bazillion things with our phones that we couldn't do at all, 50 years ago. Interchangeable lens cameras still have some advantages, but for most peoples' personal photos, a smartphone is all they need... or want.

Time marches on, as the newsreels used to say.

HalleCat Loc: Originally California, now Florida

Hi y'all, newbie here. I have been reading through many of the threads, thinking I may have entered a no go zone until this thread.
I being a iPhone photographer lol.
My first real camera was a Minolta XG1, I believe 30+ yrs ago. I have a degree in Info Tech and I have the Masters edition of Adobe Photoshop etc.
I recently upgraded my iPhone to the 11 pro max 256gig phone. It was suppose to have better photo abilities. It does have some better stuff and different stuff on it. I haven't found the benefits of some of it to my photo taking needs yet. But adjusting lighting exposure is so much faster.
I'm in my late 40's with 3 preteens in Scouts and Soccer, Photo books, Photo videos, photo blankets, and memes have pretty much consumed my phones memory to the point that I have had to email myself pictures to delete them off my phone so I could take more pics in the heat of the moment.
I will say that the apps I have had on my iPhones did/do work faster than my Adobe, sad to say, but it's true. I spend a lot of time creating books, videos, and the holidays blankets with collections of certain photos time has to saved somewhere without loosing quality.
My girlfriend has her fancy camera she carries around. It takes beautiful pictures, but if it isn't ready to go, she doesn't get the pic. I always have my phone on me and I either get the pic, or a live pic, or a video. With the live pic or video, I can get the perfect shot pic so much easier than just a pic. Much like the rapid fire pics.
Anyway that's my 2 cents on the topic. I would post a sample pic. But I haven't found that link yet. 😁

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

You do have a "real camera". It just looks like a cellphone and you can make phone calls and do the internet and …. Well, you get the point. Regarding storage, you can set your Camera app to take pictures in Apple's proprietary HEIC format to save space. You can also set your iPhone to convert them to JPEG's when you transfer them to a PC. Additionally, for $2/month you can get gigs of storage on iCloud that upload routinely for backups and for access by other iPhones that you authorize. Also you can plug your iPhone into your computer, wait for the iPhone to allow the computer access, and then copy all your photos to the computer or an external drive plugged into it. You can message me if you want more detail on doing all of that and the Apple website and YouTube are your friends.

HalleCat Loc: Originally California, now Florida

I have 200gig icloud. My new phone is a 256gig so I'm going to have to get the bigger iCloud storage quick. I have about 30,000 pics on my phone now, short of backing up my pics taking them off the phone doesn't help me finish my photo projects. Now having a phone with 256gig memory is awesome! Definitely not like my other iPhones which is why so many of my projects didn't get done, so I'm playing catch-up now, until I max this memory out. That won't be long I'm sure.
I need to find a program that will organize photos. I got one, forgot what's called at the moment, but it's not as organized on it's own that I thought it would be. With thousands of photos, it's just way to much time right now to deal with. But it would make the projects faster. All the Soccer pics together, all the Scouts pics together etc. And because of having to collect all the other pics that were saved to usb drives, cds, computer it's just gotten nuts. Digital photography blessing or curse? Both. My husband and I were going through some of our old pics recently, good ole Fotomat pics. I have containers of them. 😩
I like making the photo books, they aren't as heavy as albums. I already have a wallunit full of those. Big bulky and heavy. I use to be so organized until digital. But the pictures are so much better. But there is so much.