Not Happy Jan

[Woody]

I have about 2 and a half grand of camera gear including some flashy lens. Yet I took this photo of Barangaroo, a new multi billion site in Sydney that we afre doing some work on. I took the rotten thig with my HTC Desire. 12megapixel bloody phone. How good is modern technology.

From Drop Box

Cheers,

John W

[Cow_king]

You give me ALMOST any camera that means phone camera point n shoot w/e and given the right settings "time of day lighting subject ect" and i can produce some stunning images.

Now you give me a dslr and the ability to produce some stunning images goes way up and through the roof. all of the sudden you can take images at night that dont produce noise the size of golf balls in an image. Dslr can stop motion or show motion i mean the list is endless.

when a camera phone can do what my 7d does then yes ill be pissed or happy i guess i dono.

its like comparing a nissan sentra to a ferrari and driving them both at 35 mph around a track and seeing which performs better. put them head to head in a race see who the real winner is.

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by Woody

I took the rotten thig with my HTC Desire. 12megapixel bloody phone. How good is modern technology.

HTC has 12 MP camera phone already?

Yeah, I'm happy with my 12 MP Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 smartphone camera too.

[scootermcq]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

HTC has 12 MP camera phone already?

Yeah, I'm happy with my 12 MP Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 smartphone camera too.

I was, but then i missed the hot shoe

[Woody]

Its actually an 8mp sorry. But the point is that you can get reasonable quality from such a small device.

I know, CowKing, from my experience with SLR's for nearly 35 years, that you can achieve much more than a phone can. But the point is, how good is technology getting. Where will cameras and photography be in 5 years, 10 or twenty. The mind boggles.

As a matter of interest, where do you think we will be in the next 25 years?

I think that all cars will have cameras fitted, some people like police ambos and nurses will have lapel video cameras recording every thing they do see or hear.

Some thing to think about.

Cheers,

John W

[Nik0nator]

I understand your point I remember my first digital camera whwn the just started popping up. It was a 1.3MP that I paid over 1K for lol and today I can buy a DSLR or a DSLR + some lenses for less or the equivalent. Then the fact that my iPhone 4 has a better camera and takes better pictures.

[Cow_king]

Originally Posted by Woody

"from my experience with SLR's for nearly 35 years"

John W

Well now you have been using a dslr longer then i have been alive lol guess i was preaching to the choir lol but yes i agree I hope that in my lifetime they can replace all my organs with either grown ones or robot ones lol.

I believe that within the next 20 years they will have a device you can put onto your ear (think bluetooth device) that picks up your thoughts and then you will be able to text or chat just thinking about it and with the size of cameras getting smaller and smaller whats to say we wont be able to get them implanted in ours eyes?

CYBORG MWAHAHAHAHA lol

[PassionatePhotographer]

So you can get a good picture from a camera-phone in good (ideal?) conditions, so obviously there are times when using a dslr is overkill. Good if you are only shooting pictures in good conditions. Can you get the same good results with your camera-phone in poor conditions (ie greater distance, low light, fast-moving boat)? Or will you need your 2 1/2 grand-worth of dslr?

[SwissJon]

Just goes to show you really.. It's not the lens, it's not the camera.. It's the person..


My wife has managed to take some really bad shots with my DSLR.. Doesn't matter how much I show her, the photos are just awful.. But then so are the photos she takes with our point and push and her mobile phone.. She's not got an idea on how to use a camera.

Now you give her a kids painting set and some paper and she'll still produces some really nice sketches.. They're by no means as good as the ones she produces with her own painbrush and canvas, but to an untrained eye, they're pretty damned good, and without anything to compare with, you wouldn't know.

Same goes with cameras.. Sure, put a mobile phone camera in the right place at the right time, and i'm sure it'll produce a lovely picture.. But put it next to a DSLR with a decent lens and someone who knows how to use it, and I'll bet you prefer that one..


So who's up for it then? Next time you're out with your DSLR and the conditions appear perfect.. Take a photo or two of the same scene with the phones camera or your point and push, and post them here.. Crop them so they're the same size and ask us to judge which is the best, before you reveal which is the DSLR and which is the Mobile phone camera.. Let's see if mobile technology has really got that good..

[theosus]

Originally Posted by Nik0nator

I understand your point I remember my first digital camera whwn the just started popping up. It was a 1.3MP that I paid over 1K for lol and today I can buy a DSLR or a DSLR + some lenses for less or the equivalent. Then the fact that my iPhone 4 has a better camera and takes better pictures.

I paid 250 for my first digital camera - a nikon something... it was about the size of my palm but looked like a miniature SLR. It was maybe 2mp?

Im continually amazed at the speed of development of technology.