Gail, please use the “quote reply” button if you’re responding to a post so we’ll know who you’re responding to 😎.

Now, here's a really poor shot that exemplifies why a cellphone, while extremely useful, has low light limitations and won’t replace your DSLR. This is an available light indoor shot with an IPhone that is a complete failure. The scene is simply beyond the low light capabilities of the phone.

Now below that is the same shot in the same conditions taken with a Canon 5D4 and 135 f2L, SOOC - just cropped. BTW, it’s not great either (I didn’t take it) and the focus is a bit off, it’s at high ISO (12,600 I believe) and cropped substantially. See the difference?

Gail, please use the “quote reply” button if you’re responding to a post so we’ll know who you’re responding to 😎.

Now, here's a really poor shot that exemplifies why a cellphone, while extremely useful, has low light limitations and won’t replace your DSLR. This is an available light indoor shot with an IPhone that is a complete failure. The scene is simply beyond the low light capabilities of the phone.

Now below that is the same shot in the same conditions taken with a Canon 5D4 and 135 f2L, SOOC - just cropped. BTW, it’s not great either (I didn’t take it) and the focus is a bit off, it’s at high ISO (12,600 I believe) and cropped substantially. See the difference?

I think after 15 pages, you would be, so I’ll sign off also.

I would just add that if you meant the original 5D, which is now 14 years old, sensor technology in the phone may very well be better, but here’s the difference. Unless you’ve downloaded an ap to allow you to control the phone’s shutter speed, it will keep the shutter open long enough to get an exposure (whether it’s useful or not), even if it’s seconds. You can do the same thing with the 5D if you keep the shutter open for long enough manually with very slow speed or by using bulb.

Hope some of the information that developed in the 15 pages proved useful.

Cheers

Gail, please use the “quote reply” button if you’re responding to a post so we’ll know who you’re responding to 😎.

Now, here's a really poor shot that exemplifies why a cellphone, while extremely useful, has low light limitations and won’t replace your DSLR. This is an available light indoor shot with an IPhone that is a complete failure. The scene is simply beyond the low light capabilities of the phone.

Now below that is the same shot in the same conditions taken with a Canon 5D4 and 135 f2L, SOOC - just cropped. BTW, it’s not great either (I didn’t take it) and the focus is a bit off, it’s at high ISO (12,600 I believe) and cropped substantially. See the difference?

There have been owls in the arena where I keep my horse, but they've always flown out before I could get shots. A few days ago, I was ready. They were gone. Today everything fell into place and I got some shots of what I believe are mama and her chick. They probably had a night of hunting lessons and had stayed in the rafters to sleep (until I came along). I believe they're Western Great Horned Owls, not the Barn Owls you'd expect to see.

The dim light made shooting a bit challenging. Still, I was happy to get shots (finally).

Hi, I'm just replying in general. I want to say thank you for all your very nice, helpful, supportive PM's that I have received, so refreshing!
If anyone wants to know a tad about getting better iPhone Quality in a pinch... (and I'm not saying it's good or bad, again as most have explained) it's a tool and you need to know it's limitations.
HEIF is a proprietary format; High Efficiency Image Format which is enabled in IOS, this is ie. high efficiency compression. If you want better quality then what your iPhone will automatically give you go to > Camera Settings, Grid /on, Auto HDR, off, (scroll down) *check, Keep Normal Photo Format Options - Select Most Compatible (JPEG) / not High Efficiency (that's HEIF)
I won't go into all the specifics on compression & how you can also use Lossless TIFF &PNG on an iPhone, but what's the use? We all know the answer.
If anyone is interested in third party camera apps / Raw files & DNG Camera + and Camera +2, quality editing editing apps such as "Snapseed", emailing photo no-nos etc. let me know