Turn Your Smartphone into a Real Camera (Page 3): You have an interesting and very obsolete way of looking at things. The digital camera in my Google Pixel smart phone is just as much...

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

fetzler wrote:

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.

You have an interesting and very obsolete way of looking at things. The digital camera in my Google Pixel smart phone is just as much a real camera as my Canon 5DSr or my R5 or my R7 or my Nikon D500 or my Nikon D850 or any of my over two dozen DSLR and MILC'S I own. Just as real, just different. I guess compared to a Cadillac, a VW beetle is not a real car.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rmorrison1116 wrote:

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... I guess compared to a Cadillac, a VW beetle is not a real car.

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rmorrison1116 wrote:

You have an interesting and very obsolete way of looking at things. The digital camera in my Google Pixel smart phone is just as much a real camera as my Canon 5DSr or my R5 or my R7 or my Nikon D500 or my Nikon D850 or any of my over two dozen DSLR and MILC'S I own. Just as real, just different. I guess compared to a Cadillac, a VW beetle is not a real car.

The last year the VW beetle (original) was sold in the USA was 1979. I think one of those compared to a 1979 Cadillac of similar condition the VW is worth more.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I don’t own a smartphone. I own a smartcamera that I can make phone calls with and functions as a small computer.

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abc1234 wrote:

Save your money. Cell phones are already cameras. This is only a little more than a grip. If you have hand problems, this might help.

Good thing then. No matter how great the phone camera, its one worst shortcoming is when you try to grip it.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

gvarner wrote:

I don’t own a smartphone. I own a smartcamera that I can make phone calls with and functions as a small computer.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

User ID wrote:

Good thing then. No matter how great the phone camera, its one worst shortcoming is when you try to grip it.

This is from a Pakarklis video. Note how he holds the phone. It’s very stable. For portrait shots, simply rotate clockwise and support underneath with right hand, use left thumb to make shot.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

fetzler wrote:

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.

You are way of on this. Current cell phone cameras allow you to take control in manual mode, controlling shutter speed, etc. They are a real camera and capture Ann image just like a DSLR. Just smaller sensors. But they are, in fact, real cameras. They do not even compare to instamatics, as you say, ever everything was fixed. But they too were real cameras, just with everything fixed, and no adjustments, therefore no control.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

gvarner wrote:

I don’t own a smartphone. I own a smartcamera that I can make phone calls with and functions as a small computer.

me too, and I use mine as a portable computer more than a phone.

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gvarner wrote:

This is from a Pakarklis video. Note how he holds the phone. It’s very stable. For portrait shots, simply rotate clockwise and support underneath with right hand, use left thumb to make shot.

Exactly what I despise about it.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

gvarner wrote:

This is from a Pakarklis video. Note how he holds the phone. It’s very stable. For portrait shots, simply rotate clockwise and support underneath with right hand, use left thumb to make shot.

I can't trust a phone for my treasured shots - unless I forget the camera for some reason

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

joecichjr wrote:

I can't trust a phone for my treasured shots - unless I forget the camera for some reason

In the right hands they can make beautiful shots which can be made into beautiful prints. It’s each person's choice.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

gvarner wrote:

In the right hands they can make beautiful shots which can be made into beautiful prints. It’s each person's choice.

Bingo!

Bruce T Loc: Michigan

I have a Canon 5D4.
I was at a football game taking pics of my step- son in the band, I have an Apple 13. When I enlarged the image, I did not get grain but a muddled image enlarged.

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

'In the right hands' any camera can make beautiful pictures.