ILC Nearly Dead (Page 3): First let me say I am an avid DSLR user, but many of your "needs" can be found with your cell phone. The app 645pro will allow you to excersize potentially...

Mundj Loc: Richmond TX

rehess wrote:

All I have said is that my most recent iPhone falls way short of what I need, for example,

(1) no viewfinder

(2) no opportunity for me to exert control

(3) no zoom nor any opportunity to change lens choices

(4) no burst mode

(5) poor focusing during motion

(6) little opportunity for me to control

(7) no swappable memory

First let me say I am an avid DSLR user, but many of your "needs" can be found with your cell phone. The app 645pro will allow you to excersize potentially more control over you cell phone photos. In addition in addition to the normal adjustments you can even select which type of photographic film you want to emulate. There are makers of clip on lenses to provide lens choices. These devices do a great job, but I will continue to use my DSLR I love to use the camera.

docdish Loc: Saint Petersburg, FL

interchangeable lens camera? not a common term.

cthahn

What does this have to do with photography?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

cthahn wrote:

What does this have to do with photography?

Cameras are kind of essential to photography.

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

rehess wrote:

All I have said is that my most recent iPhone falls way short of what I need, for example,

(1) no viewfinder

(2) no opportunity for me to exert control

(3) no zoom nor any opportunity to change lens choices

(4) no burst mode

(5) poor focusing during motion

(6) little opportunity for me to control

(7) no swappable memory

I receive daily advertisements on FB about classes to improve my photography with my iPhone. I viewed the 7 free tips and found out that on the 7 plus it can do some burst mode (hold down the shutter button). It also has a second lens for telephoto-very crappy but it's there. By pointing to your intended subject on the screen you can override what the phone wants to focus on and where it's setting the exposure. Very primitive by our standards but a huge improvement for smartphone photography. And the iPhone uses a Sony sensor- teeny tiny by FF or even APS-C standards, but a Sony sensor nonetheless.

I haven't researched why people are compelled to buy new smartphones each year. The built in camera and video is heavily advertised but I'm not sure it seals the deal. I'm an optimist and just maybe some budding new photography enthusiasts will exploit the crappy built in lenses and tiny sensors on their new phones but want more and better.

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

SS319 wrote:

Inter changeable Lenses - includes DSLRs and Mirrorless

"ILC" stands for 'inter changeable-lens compact' camera, DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflect) is not "ILC". It may includes the 'mirror-less; some 'range-finder digital camera', but some mirror-less cameras are not compact any more that are not much different in size to some DSLR.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

docdish wrote:

interchangeable lens camera? not a common term.

Except among photographers.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

cthahn wrote:

What does this have to do with photography?

What are you talking about? Please learn to use "Quote Reply"

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

wingclui44 wrote:

"ILC" stands for 'inter changeable-lens compact' camera, DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflect) is not "ILC". It may includes the 'mirror-less; some 'range-finder digital camera', but some mirror-less cameras are not compact any more that are not much different in size to some DSLR.

Actually it stands for "Interchangeable Lens Camera." It does include SLRs digital or otherwise.

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

dsmeltz wrote:

Actually it stands for "Interchangeable Lens Camera." It does include SLRs digital or otherwise.

Okay! Thank you!

leftj Loc: Texas

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't think it's going to die but if it does it's a good thing.

What are you even talking about?

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

cthahn wrote:

What does this have to do with photography?

Plenty. What do you have to do with photography, or even with being a useful partially sentient life form?

gegjr Loc: Indiana

My view in case any cares. 😊
I pretty much agree. I don't consider the piece to be doom and gloom at all. Like a holes everybody got one and this is the authors. No reason to be insulting if you don't agree just say so and state reasons why or ignore it.
IMHO the average person buying a P&S typically will only print 4x6 and the occasional 5x7 or even 8x10. The camera phone is certainly capable enough for that. Where the slr, slt, ilc come into play, IMHO, is when you need reach, long glass, or when you become more interested in photography as an art form rather than just capturing the moment. People generally just capturing the moment don't spend time on wildlife, nature, or landscape photography. There is one thing I'd like to correct or add to the original article is that phone camera's like the one I have, the Nokia 1020 no longer in production, is capable of complete manual mode and even shooting their version of a raw file up to 32MP.
Just ny $0.02.

BebuLamar

leftj wrote:

What are you even talking about?

Photography instead of cameras. Well I lied! I like to talk about cameras but I can talk all day about old cameras.

bigguytf

Delete, got into wrong topic. Sorry