Cell phone DSLR ? (Page 2): If all you do is take snapshots, you should buy one.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

apolloshep wrote:

My wife has a Samsung Galaxy 10. She has no photo... (show quote)

If all you do is take snapshots, you should buy one.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm not comfortable taking pictures with my Samsung, but for most "phone photographers," it's second nature. See something - click it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

aellman wrote:

There is a lot of smart-phone trashing that goes on here, but it's ridiculous.

martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida

billnikon wrote:

If all you do is take snapshots, you should buy one.

Im not picking on you, but your statement doesn't hold water anymore. Check out some of the cell phone only pages on the net, incredible photos. Now you can use this statement as a generality toward the DSLR user as well. Unless learned to use properly a snap shots is about all you'll get from a camera also.......

SonyBug

Kmgw9v wrote:

My wife, who would never before even consider carrying a camera, now produces remarkable, irreplaceable images of her grandkids with her iPhone8.
The phone camera naysayers are wrong.

I upgraded to the 8s for just that reason. When I am stuck with no camera, out comes the cell phone!

traderjohn Loc: New York City

martinfisherphoto wrote:

Im not picking on you, but your statement doesn't hold water anymore. Check out some of the cell phone only pages on the net, incredible photos. Now you can use this statement as a generality toward the DSLR user. Unless learned to use properly a snap shots is about all you'll get from a camera as well.......

You are right. For some reason, there seems to be a level of snobbery against cell phones and their users.

RolandY

I have an iPhone for the first time. It has 12mp. The default is 72dpi. I put the photo in PhotoShop, reduce the size, then save it as 300dpi. It’s as good a quality as my Canon. I’ve had them blown up without the pixels being affected. However the pics have a max enlargement where the pixels start being affected.

RolandY

Oh- I reduce the size because the default is very large image with the low 72dpi

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

traderjohn wrote:

You are right. For some reason, there seems to be a level of snobbery against cell phones and their users.

In a crowd of cell phone photographers, I will not deny that I have felt conspicuous when I pull out my 800E with a 70-200 lens attached. “Who does this guy think he is?” Snicker, Snicker.
I don’t care.
But, that doesn’t mean that I am blind to the convenience, image quality, and true photographic value of a cell phone in the hands of a serious user.
In short, cell phones are great and getting better every generation.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Kmgw9v wrote:

In a crowd of cell phone photographers, I will not deny that I have felt conspicuous when I pull out my 800E with a 70-200 lens attached. “Who does this guy think he is?” Snicker, Snicker.
I don’t care.
But, that doesn’t mean that I am blind to the convenience, image quality, and true photographic value of a cell phone in the hands of a serious user.
In short, cell phones are great and getting better every generation.

You are right about cell phones. My "snobbery" comment was about some people on this site.

JeffL Loc: New Jersey

My wife was trying to take a photo of a flower with the Nikon D3100 I gave her last year. It always appeared overexposed. I took the camera and tried several different options: ISO, aperture, shutter speed, EV, etc. If I overcompensated, it either washed out or the whole image was underexposed. I never got the true colors of the flower. It was beyond frustrating. She walked up with her iPhone 7, focused, hit the button and had perfectly exposed photo with the exact color of the flower, no problem. She refuses to use the Nikon because, in her opinion, the cellphone gets it done without any complications.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

billnikon wrote:

If all you do is take snapshots, you should buy one.

So those IPhone Billboards are just snap shots? They look pretty darn good to me. They were all shot with an IPhone.
The truth is most of the people who own dslr’s never take them out of auto mode Aren't they just taking “snapshots”? It’s not the hammer it’s the Carpenter.

It wasn’t so long ago that the argument was “Digital will never replace film!” Where is film today? I am willing to bet in the not so distance future there will be a section in this forum devoted to cell phone photography. There are platforms designed today specifically for cell phone photography. Take a look at Instagram the whole purpose of that app was for people to have a place to display cell phone pictures. Just take a look and you will see amazing images. Oh and Instagram has a market cap of $100 Billion with a B. It’s time to respect cell phone photography.
Here is the best thing about cell phone photography in my opinion. It is getting everyone involved in “our” art form. How great is that? When in the history of time has there ever been so many people exploring any art form? People young and old are being introduced to the world of photography as active participants because of cell phones. How cool is that?
Even My 80 year old parents are taking pictures every day with their cell phones. Of course my mother still catches part of her thumb in part of most of her shots lol.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

martinfisherphoto wrote:

Im not picking on you, but your statement doesn't hold water anymore. Check out some of the cell phone only pages on the net, incredible photos. Now you can use this statement as a generality toward the DSLR user as well. Unless learned to use properly a snap shots is about all you'll get from a camera also.......

I cannot take a 30 second exposure of WATER using ND filters and then processing it to a 30X40 image.

sumo Loc: Houston suburb

Did you know your iPhone take photos in HEIF/HEVC format? You can change this to take photos in JPEG format.
Go to settings/ camera/ format/ check most compatible for JPEG…trust me these will be better photos, more pixels than HEIF (the default setting for your phone)

Additionally, you should always always FOCUS your I phone camera to have better & more keeper photos

When taking pictures using you iPhone…. using the auto focus feature is OK, but many times autofocus will fail. Especially with many items are in the frame / some subjects closer than others.

there is a solution.

ALWAYS SET THE FOCUS YOURSELF … Simply tap on the part of the image that you want to be in focus, and your iPhone will take care of the rest. Frame your shot and touch the screen on your focal point until a yellow box appears. That means you’re in focus on a particular spot

But sometimes the iPhone will try to refocus exactly when you’re trying to take a photo, so lock your focus… hold your finger a bit longer and AE/AF lock will appear at the top of screen. That means automatic exposure, automatic focus locks in on you focal point. It will not unlock until you touch the screen again.

You can also lighten and darken your image by sliding your finger up in down on the screen

Snap the picture by using button at bottom or by using either volume button or use your plug in headphones
it may take a second or two longer to take a picture…but you will have more keepers

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Kmgw9v wrote:

My wife, who would never before even consider carrying a camera, now produces remarkable, irreplaceable images of her grandkids with her iPhone8.
The phone camera naysayers are wrong.

I agree. I seldom use my phone to take photos except for those times I won’t risk damage to my Nikon’s or Leicas. Fly fishing in a rushing river or fishing on an ocean boat are two examples. For those cases my cell phone does great for, “record” shots.

My wife and daughter in law get great shots of grandkids that seem to be moving 24/7 because their phone/camera is out and ready when a photo opportunity comes up.

Dennis