I often see a poster apologizing for showing an image from their cellphone because their real camera wasn’t available. What constitutes a “real” camera?
DavidA wrote:
I often see a poster apologizing for showing an image from their cellphone because their real camera wasn’t available. What constitutes a “real” camera?
Ask the person. The cellphone is a real camera.
DavidA wrote:
I often see a poster apologizing for showing an image from their cellphone because their real camera wasn’t available. What constitutes a “real” camera?
Pitiful, a cry for attention.
A real photographer brings their camera.
That question brings to mind my very first "camera" - a prize from the New York World's Fair of 1939-40. It was a box with a tiny piece of film clipped to the back wall and a piece of glass in front. I was so disappointed that my father gave me a "real" camera. That one was shaped like a 35 mm camera, and it used "real" roll film, a "real" lens and a choice of two shutter speeds - "Instant" and "Bulb." It took "real" B/W pictures and satisfied my 10-year-old curiosity. No comparison with even the cheapest of today's cellphone cameras.
DavidA wrote:
I often see a poster apologizing for showing an image from their cellphone because their real camera wasn’t available. What constitutes a “real” camera?
"real camera" = a dedicated camera with more features than the cameras built into most cellphones.
However the cellphone cameras are generally very good basic cameras. So good, and handy, that they have destroyed the low end of the camera market.
And a huge % of people are very happy with what they get from those cameras. They are not "into photography" like many of us on this site.
Also some people do a great job with a cellphone camera. The fact you don't have interchangeable lenses and all of those controls forces you to concentrate on picking a subject, picking a good point of view, recognizing good light and composition etc. etc. Which results in better images.
Many photo classes now require the students to start with a cell phone before moving on to dedicated "real" cameras just so they have to learn composition etc.
A few years ago the AAA's (actually So Cal Automobile Club) annual photo contest in California the #2 winner was a cell phone image of Yosemite while #1 was done by a pro using a pro level studio 4x5 film camera. #3 and beyond were "real" digital and film cameras.
In My Humble Opinion:
A cell phone takes a picture
A Camera takes a Photograph
inclinerr wrote:
In My Humble Opinion:
A cell phone takes a picture
A Camera takes a Photograph
Many people use "picture" and "photograph" interchangeably.
Guess that works as they both wind up with an image.
inclinerr wrote:
In My Humble Opinion:
A cell phone takes a picture
A Camera takes a Photograph
But only if your expectations of the cell phone camera are so low, you don't even bother to at least attempt to take "photographs" with them. A self fulfilling prophecy!
A camera is a camera. Period. A cellphone is a camera cum flashlight, calendar, diary, map, compass, magnifier, library, alarm clock, radio etc…
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CHG_CANON wrote:
A real photographer brings their camera.
Longshadow wrote:
Which one?
Which real photographer or which real camera?
Really?
hugEDhog wrote:
A camera is a camera. Period. A cellphone is a camera cum flashlight, calendar, diary, map, compass, magnifier, library, alarm clock, radio etc…
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I'd like to see a "real" camera do all that!
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