What Are You Going to Do When Phones Replace Your DSLR? Let the dawgs out....

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Let the dawgs out....

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rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I will continue to use my DSLR as phones will never replace them. Phones may be replacing a segment of point and shoot cameras but do you really believe a smart phone will be capable of replacing something like a Canon 5DSR or 5DIV or a Nikon D850 or a Canon 1DX II or Nikon D5 or D500. People who understand the difference between a point and shoot phone camera and a high end dedicated camera will choose the dedicated camera for creating quality images, something phone cameras can't do because of the technology involved. Sure, phone cameras are perfectly fine for snap shots and images destined to be posted online, but how many photographers are using them to shoot weddings or sports events or fashion magazines or wildlife magazine or anything that's destined to be turned into a large print?!
As long as there is a demand for high end versatile cameras, the camera manufacturers will continue to make and sell them.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Racmanaz wrote:

Let the dawgs out....

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It's a good and proper opinion. With the cellphones cameras getting better and better, people will and do use them to take proper photographs as necessary. Will true DSLRs or interchangeable lense cameras every be totally replaced? No. There are things that a cellphone camera just cannot handle. But it can and will be used by photographers that need a camera now at that immediate moment when they have nothing else available. .

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

It will never happen. They will always be photographers using cameras.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Wouldn't be nice if you could make phone calls and texts on your D810? You could play games while waiting on the perfect shot.

david vt Loc: Vermont

Will smartphones replace a segement of the market? Yes. Wil they keep having more features and be able to take better and more complex photos? Will the inscreen editing capabilities improve? Yes (just see the new iPhone “portrait” mode.

That said? will phones replace a full functioning DSLR - not for the foreseeable future. I just got back into photography because my iPhone/iPad could not take the shots I wanted. The small sensors on these devices will not be able to control DOF. They (for a long while) will not have 20mp+ sensors. They will not have the quality of glass available to us today. And I, for one, cannot imagine a 400 mm lens on the back of my phone.

JMHO.

PS. No, I don’t want my DSLR to talk on the phone. Happy just to chat on my phone while my camera sits on the tripod waiting for that shot

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

A phone will never replace my DSLR, unless they quit making DSLRs.
I may use a phone as an additional tool, but replace?- Never.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Racmanaz wrote:

Let the dawgs out....

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Nothing, because that will never happen!

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

speters wrote:

Nothing, because that will never happen!

Never say never, technology is advancing at a high velocity that cell phones ability to capture images will mirror the image quality of today's DSLR's. Image quality has it's limitations where DSLR's meet their dead end, how far can image quality advance...where is that limitation that is achievable or acceptable?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Racmanaz wrote:

Never say never, technology is advancing at a high velocity that cell phones ability to capture images will mirror the image quality of today's DSLR's. Image quality has it's limitations where DSLR's meet their dead end, how far can image quality advance...where is that limitation that is achievable or acceptable?

I MUCH prefer the ergonomic feel of a DSLR over a phone. Never happen.....

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Longshadow wrote:

I prefer the ergonomic feel of a DSLR MUCH over a phone. Never happen.....

I agree that many feel this way, probably much easier to stabilize DSLR's than cell phones held at arm's length. :)

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

david vt wrote:

Will smartphones replace a segement of the market?... (show quote)

Most of us that have been shooting for a long time recognise that the cellphone cameras are good, but not as good as interchangeable lense camera. Great in some tight pinches, useless in some situations.

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

Racmanaz wrote:

Never say never, technology is advancing at a high velocity that cell phones ability to capture images will mirror the image quality of today's DSLR's. Image quality has it's limitations where DSLR's meet their dead end, how far can image quality advance...where is that limitation that is achievable or acceptable?

Even after CDs arrived, die-hards insisted that vinyl shall never be replaced!

BTW, anyone wants a box of S-VHS tapes cheap...? I have some cartons of film (frozen) too...! :-(

Jerry Green Loc: Huntsville, AL

Start having GAS attacks over the latest cell phone.

Tjohn Loc: Inverness, FL formerly Arivaca, AZ

Not worth worrying about.