
Some see the arrival of cameras such as these as indicative of camera companies responding to the market by taking on smart phones as a camera to take everywhere.
While phone cameras are damned useful and most of them take pretty decent images, they fall down in many respects.
Some, but not all, fall down in low light, with little access to high IOS settings; many disallow precise control of the lens aperture, enabling low light photography and/or control of depth of field; a similar story can be told of shutter speed control, preventing sharp images of fast moving objects; extended zooms are rare in smart phone cameras; battery life may be foreshortened due to excessive phone use.
But we’re not here to bash smart phones … god love ‘em!
Back to the review.
As usual, I …









