EJMcD wrote:
While there is no doubt that cellphone cameras have come a long way and can produce excellent images, the ability to experiment with a fully adjustable (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) CAMERA can produce images otherwise not possible with a cellphone. I give cellphone cameras an "A" for convenience and image quality and traditional cameras an "A+" for image quality, creativity and FUN!
My opinion ONLY. Everyone do whatever works for you.
A camera is a tool, just like a stove... you don't ask the chef what kind of stove he used. If a quality image is produced with a cellphone so be it, it's all in how you use it. I realize that there a premadona photographers out there that will never give in to the use of cellphone photography. If you want to carry all that extra baggage weight, be my guest. I still pack my Canon 7D Mark II and 5D Mark IV in my vehicle for those long trips where BIF photography will happen or those far off wildlife shots that I need my 150-600mm lens for the reach. But if I don't have to swing the weight, I won't. If I took one photo with my high grade DSLR camera, and my cellphone and put them side by side, I dought very seriously you could tell the difference... Just a thought.