burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

The newest high end smart phones have almost no lag. With the right camera app, they're pretty amazing.

That said, I love my LUMIX GH4 and interchangeable pro zoom lenses. The OLED screen and EVF make it very versatile. With the 35-100mm f/2.8 zoom, it's 1/3 the size of a full frame dSLR, so people have NO idea what I'm able to do.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Perspective distortion is easily tamed in software such as Lightroom.

jim '57 Loc: Sacramento, California

My Nokia 1020 takes great close ups and records video at 1080. I have had it for about 3 years now and am very happy with it. Apple has a great ad division.

PhotoArtsLA Loc: Boynton Beach

Street Photography could be called "Candid Photography" where the trick is to learn to blend in to the background to get the shot, unobserved. The problem with any degree of ostentatious presence is that you will affect the scene, making it more "posed" than it should be. That said, any camera is acceptable which is reasonably quiet. The cell phone cameras have taken off since plastic lenses finally shed "plastic junk" from its name. The problem with cell phone cameras is they are a lot of bother in setting everything once you find a phone app with all the control, enough so that you might miss the intended shot. Any camera higher up the chain would suffice and likely be faster in the shooting. The great street/candid photographers of the past were extremely fast, often with the near silent Leica and film.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

Here is my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hClWW0mIfmY&feature=youtu.be

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Interesting thoughts, but that is not true about Street Photography. Much Street is candid, but much that is candid is not Street and much Street is not candid. Being unobserved has virtually nothing to do with how Street is defined. Note that "posed" when applied to what should not be done with Street does not mean just anything that affects a scene. It means it is not staged, it is not choreographed, it is not setup by the photographer. But one very common style of Street is to get pictures of people reacting to the photographer!

Basically all of these various characteristics (with the exception of it not being staged) are not part of the definition of Street, but rather they are the characteristics of one or another photographer's style of Street Photography. One guy uses only a 35mm lens, another guy uses only a 50mm, and another a 200mm... they all have different styles of Street. When each is asked how they define Street they give a description defining how they do Street, but it is not a universal description of what Street, nor of characteristics that are necessary to call something Street or to exclude it.

Here is the simplest definition that I have come up with, posted in the introduction to the Street Photography Section, and taken verbatim from Wikipedia,
In fact, Street Photograph captures life, it records the intangible relationships between humans and their surrounding.

All of that is true.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Your videos are absolutely entertaining! It's the delivery that makes it so...

Some of the details are wierd, and maybe the organization isn't the best. But your way of talking and saying things is very pleasant.

I've watched your video describing Street Photograph three or four times. And I enjoy it everytime. But suggestions that Street is necessarily candid, spontaneous, with no eye contract, always showing mood or emotion... well, those are characteristics of some styles of Street, but they don't define Street. Think of how any of those fit Bruce Gilden, the pop a flash in your face and grin guy! He does Street, even if it's not what you and I might aspire to.

Street Photography captures life. The subject is not the people, and indeed there need not even be a person in the photograph. The subject is something intangible. It's various relationships between people and what is around them. Life.

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

amen

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

Apaflo, thank you very much for your nice comment on my videos.

I also agree with your definition of Street Photography.