Will smart phone cameras replace DSLRs in the future? (Page 8): ============== True! No more than the digital camera would replace the film camera. Each has their purpose and use. Like...

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

rmalarz wrote:

Not for me, Jen. Smart phones are for making phone calls. Cameras are for making photographs. I try not to get either to multi-task by taking the other's responsibilities. But, then, that's just me.

To me, the print, and a large one at that, is the final stage of a photograph. Phones just don't cut it with a 24x36 print.
--Bob

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True!

No more than the digital camera would replace the film camera. Each has their purpose and use.

Like my film cameras and my digitals.

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photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

I come from the days of film and print and enlarging. I don't have a smart phone (all my phone does is make calls) so I don't know the quality of a print enlarged to 11x14 or 16x20. I know my crop sensor cameras do an admirable job as prints that size; I doubt a cell phone camera can -- but, since I don't have a cell phone camera, I may be wrong.

74images Loc: Los Angeles, California

Stash wrote:

Not for me. I'm old school and prefer a camera that was made for that purpose. I don't need a camera that plays games,
surf the internet, texts, etc., etc., etc. That's why I still have flip phone I guess and not a so called smart phone..

Amen Brother!

74images

dar_clicks Loc: Utah

PhotoFem wrote:

I see people using iphones, smart phones and now even with new lens attachments to take photos of everyday life...and even nature. Perhaps, this is because they can instantaneously post their images on Facebook and Instagram. Instagram even has rudimentary tools to improve bad images...or, even alter their original look.
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Jen

. On this and some other topics we often can be too quick to believe we must think in terms of “either or,” which probably isn’t necessary.
. I like using any kind of camera that works and is available or chosen for a given situation, whether it’s housing is conventional or part of a phone ... and I’m a guy who really liked my old clamshell and hated to switch to smart phone.
. Several kinds of phones that folks use nowadays can help produce great photos if used well.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

AndyH wrote:

Interesting points of view on this, although some ... (show quote)

I still say the cell phone has replaced the DSLR. For a while the DSLR and PS cameras were all there was. Then the cell phone showed op and has pretty much wiped out the PS cameras and has now wiped out the DSLR/Mirrorless. Those who now purchase the DSLR/Mirrorless are those who bought the SLRs of the past, the photo enthusiast and pro. The rest used instamatics/polaroids. For a while during the growth of the cell phone there was a gap and many bought the Rebel type of DSLR and some the PS camera. But now we are where the DSLR?Mirrorless has reverted again to the enthusiast/pro while all else is pretty much a cell phone.
There will always or until a major breakthrough be the DSLR/Mirrorless camera for the enthusiast/pro. So yes the cell phone has replaced, in society, the DSLR.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

Architect1776 wrote:

I still say the cell phone has replaced the DSLR. ... (show quote)

Not for me (and I am sure a lot of others).... as someone else said here it's not either/or but just another option - I use both depending on the circumstance. In NYC Times Square I see a lot of people (tourists) with a lot of difference cameras - DSLR, ML, and smartphone, and in many cases they are using both a smartphone with one other type. In some cases I still see wind levers (film cameras)! I just cleaned hundreds of photos from my smartphone, but I still use the DSLR for more serious shots.... sure you can buy an aftermarket clip on zoom lens for your phone but for best quality you need a larger sensor even if it's M43. I do like the smartphone also for making quick copies of documents and clippings, or ads that I want to investigate further.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Owing to the dimensions and geometry of any smartphone the buildable optics will be linited. Someone mentioned attachment lenses - look carefully, they do fisheye, closeup/macro, and linited wide angle. No telephoto.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

It won't happen with a smartphone for a photographer but maybe a snap-shooter.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Wrong thread- moved.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Besperus wrote:

Technology has been used to help people develope s... (show quote)

Canon already is using a 250 mp dslr sensor with EF lenses.

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

No, not for serious photographers. For selfies and casual snapshots, they already have.

adm

I am with the vast majority of those weighing in above that the smartphone will not replace the DSLR or other high end cameras for professionals and serious amateurs. The smartphone has made substantial inroads into the point and shoot market but this is for the mass market, point and shoot crowd, the kind of people that would have used instamatics 50 years ago. A smartphone would generally not be satisfying to a serious amateur or pro because of its relatively low image quality, limited optics, and lack of manual options. The only serious challenge to the DSLR comes from interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras of comparable quality. I refer you to the thread on that topic of a few days ago.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

PhotoFem wrote:

I see people using iphones, smart phones and now even with new lens attachments to take photos of everyday life...and even nature. Perhaps, this is because they can instantaneously post their images on Facebook and Instagram. Instagram even has rudimentary tools to improve bad images...or, even alter their original look.
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Jen

My iPhone is great as a fixed-lens snapshot camera. It does not replace my mirrorless Lumix GH4. But the Lumix replaced my Canon and Nikon dSLR (and film SLR) systems.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

photoman022 wrote:

I come from the days of film and print and enlarging. I don't have a smart phone (all my phone does is make calls) so I don't know the quality of a print enlarged to 11x14 or 16x20. I know my crop sensor cameras do an admirable job as prints that size; I doubt a cell phone camera can -- but, since I don't have a cell phone camera, I may be wrong.

Yes you are wrong, but it is ok.

adm

Whatever a smart phone can do, a real camera (even a crop sensor one) can do better.