Turn Your Smartphone into a Real Camera (Page 2): I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if your interested.

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

luvmypets wrote:

I was on FB and scrolled across an ad for this product, sold at Adorama, to turn your smartphone into a real camera. It works with most iPhones and most of the more popular Android models. I will put a link in the next post.

Has any tried this? It's on sale for $19.99 in case anyone wants to give it a try and not spend the $90 when not on sale. If you do, let me know how it works.

Dodie

I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if your interested.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

luvmypets wrote:

Thank you for your comment. I am not planning to purchase this; I only use my cell phone camera when necessary but was curious if someone else had purchased it or was looking for such an item.

I do find it amusing that the description touts this grip will make your phone real camera.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!!

Dodie

I ordered one to try it out.
I’ll let you know
Merry Christmas

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

luvmypets wrote:

I was on FB and scrolled across an ad for this product, sold at Adorama, to turn your smartphone into a real camera. It works with most iPhones and most of the more popular Android models. I will put a link in the next post.

Has any tried this? It's on sale for $19.99 in case anyone wants to give it a try and not spend the $90 when not on sale. If you do, let me know how it works.

Dodie

Yes, this is a good idea - takes away the awkwardness of using a smart phone as a camera - much more natural for those accustomed to using a camera. Makes the phone more ergonomic - I would buy one -IF- I had a smart phone - I use a flip phone ....

Mr Bill 2011 Loc: southern Indiana

If you're going to carry that around, you might as well carry a nice, small point & shoot camera.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Longshadow wrote:

It does nothing to alter or improve the quality of cell phone images, it simply gives one a different way to hold the camera. It's a cell phone handle, that's all.

At least it puts the phone in the proper position.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Mr Bill 2011 wrote:

If you're going to carry that around, you might as well carry a nice, small point & shoot camera.

Yes, but a camera would not have hundreds of apps to run your life - and you could not make a phone call

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

rmorrison1116 wrote:

Smart phone cameras ARE real cameras. When are those who believe otherwise going to wake up and taste reality. Sure, they are not dedicated cameras, but they are very real. More photos are taken with smart phone cameras than with dedicated cameras.

Okay, cell phones are real cameras, like Minox and Minolta 16's were real cameras back in the day, quality of tiny sensor or film is always behind a larger format. If you want a wallet size photo, small is good , if you want a wall hanging bigger is better as a general rule.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

rmorrison1116 wrote:

Smart phone cameras ARE real cameras. When are those who believe otherwise going to wake up and taste reality. Sure, they are not dedicated cameras, but they are very real. More photos are taken with smart phone cameras than with dedicated cameras.

Well smart phones are real cameras only in the sense that Instamatic cameras of the past were real cameras. Yes they make photographs. I have made pinhole cameras that I consider more of a real camera than a cellphone.

Indeed, I don't think of cellphones as particularly good phones, computers, or cameras.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

It’s 19.99 because it’s version I…

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

alberio wrote:

At least it puts the phone in the proper position.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

luvmypets wrote:

https://www.adorama.com/mwpt1bs52.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PaidAds&utm_content=nmpi_daba&fbclid=IwAR0HyJVa1onMZ0yxo-UQe3SKmlZrNDgsvpRd_973jKDmkKmsSvwcHrAovhw&utm_source=facebook-performance

Cell phone cameras are REAL cameras, so this does nothing to improve that.

What it does do is provide a DSLR feel and easier to hold and control the phone. I like it for that and preferred one for my wife who has a hard time holding the phone for photos.

Thanks for sharing this. At $20 it's not a real life off it's junk. But coming from Adorama, I don't think so. I trust them.

I'll report back how it is and how it works. I'll probably catch a lot of flack, but if it works and helps my wife it's great. We're poor and can not afford a point and shoot for her she really is not a photographer and only takes pics of her grandkids sometimes.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Mr Bill 2011 wrote:

If you're going to carry that around, you might as well carry a nice, small point & shoot camera.

But if this works, at $20 it's a Lot cheaper.

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

Get an Emily at Paris cellphone camera.
It has a lens attached so you can put your fingers in front of it.

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

Get an Emily at Paris cellphone camera.
It has a lens attached so you can put your fingers in front of it.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

bobmcculloch wrote:

Okay, cell phones are real cameras, like Minox and Minolta 16's were real cameras back in the day, quality of tiny sensor or film is always behind a larger format. If you want a wallet size photo, small is good , if you want a wall hanging bigger is better as a general rule.

I've been into photography for around 55 years and I became interested in the technology of digital photography about 22 years ago. My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica CD300. It has just over 3 megapixels of resolution and records to a mini CD. I still have it and it still works. My highest resolution camera is my Canon 5DSr, around 50 megapixels. I currently own over 25 DSLR's and MILC's and my current daily shooters are Canon R5 and R7. I own both Canon and Nikon gear and over 35 lenses, Canon EF, EF-S and RF, and Nikon F mount, made by Canon, Nikkor, Sigma and Tamron. my Nikon cameras include a D7200, D500 and D850.
My point is, I understand digital sensors and the technology behind them and what happens when you enlarge an image recorded with a tiny sensor. But the point I was focusing on is, a digital camera regardless of size, lenses and whatever, is indeed a REAL camera. The camera in my Google Pixel 6 smart phone is indeed a real camera, albeit not a dedicated camera, but still as real as the Sun in the sky.