rtryan wrote:
So if you are “other than professional” photographer, why not capture the memory. Love my Sony RX10 for great photos without worry about changing lens and I can tweak and make look better with PS and LR and also have great memories and darn good photos with my iPhone
With apologies to Kodak: one cannot capture a memory, only an image.
Sentimental images are bad photography: kitsch.
Not all amateurs are bad photographers (nor, alas, are all professionals
equally good --these days, most are struggling just to stay in business).
Henri Cartier-Bresson was an amateur photographer. He used 35 mm
rangefinder and a 50 mm lens---standard equipment for amateurs at
that time.
It just so happened that that equipment was understandable,
controllable and very reliable. He didn't need to change cameras every
few years: his Leica kept working (it still works--but it's in a museum now).
When he did buy a new Leica, it was compatible with the old one:
nothing to re-learn.
And it didn't have different menus--it didn't have menus. He could use it
without taking it down from his eye. It didn't have bugs in in its firmware
becuase it didn't have firmware. And no batteries to go dead.
I very much doubt your cell phone is going to end up in a museum. It is much
more likely to end up in a landfilll--along with any prints made from it.
And the digital images it took will simply disappear into thin air--as all
records eventually do that aren't recorded in permanent materials.
Cell phones are a wonder of modern technology and a tremendous convenience.
They have produced no photography of note--nothing that will las as long as
Cartier-Bresson's work has. In a few years, some new consumer gadget will
replace them--and cell phones will be old hat.