DSLR vs Smartphone

[Monochrom]

The other day i was able to handle the sony module that attaches to a cell phone, it´s impressive somehow clunky to use but i could see clearly it´s potential...

That module has two option sensors...and therefore IQ depends on which one you choose, this says celarly that IQ is possible and a market target.

There is no new that small camera (small sensor) niche is disappearing in favour of cell phone cameras...

If cell phones enter directly into producing quality images i have no doubt that they will geopardize many formats, from smaller to medium ones.

Barnack cameras succeded making small format quality photography.

Some member posted some time ago a link about an old magazine from the times when just appeared the 24x36 film format...and as i recall it said something like this...small format has a huge dof and lacks the quality of 6x6 and larger format pictures....

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[Ronald M]

My neighbor was in the market for Dslr. I brought a Nikon D40, D7000, D700, and D3 to her home.

This Christmas she was using some kind of smart phone for photos. She is not a photog and has no interest in learning, all she wants is proof is her dog is cute and the grand child walks. She wants auto everything and to heck with quality.

 

[Dektol Dan]

Really Mr. Pierce?

Really Mr. Pierce?

It's a slow news day everywhere I guess. The Republicans in the US are dying from refusing to take flu shots. The nuns are giving the Pope the cold shoulder. Children are no longer taught cursive in school. Bill Pierce wonders of cell phones are somehow related to full sized cameras. Jeeesh!

It's just the further dumming down of our society.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

It's just the further dumming down of our society.

Perhaps it is or perhaps it is not. I wonder if we are surrounded by so many wonderful things that we sometimes lose track of how amazing the world is. When I consider the sheer complexity and subtlety of a cellphone and a specialised digital camera, I find myself in awe of how easily we can take such things for granted.

 

[Photo_Smith]

It's just the further dumming down of our society.

Could it get any more dumb? BTW I (mis)read in your post that the nuns are giving the pope a cold shower–that I'd like to see even if taken on an iPhone😀

 

[Bill Pierce]

Dan -

Believe it or not, my attention to the D preview post came from an email that Eric Meola sent me that he headed “Whether we admit it or not.’ Eric has been a full framer since the beginning of time, and I don’t think that some his large exhibition prints or even his books would have quite their impact if shot with a phone. But in the news world, where digital photography let us quickly transmit images back to our publications from almost anywhere, we started with DSLR’s that probably didn’t have the image quality of the best phones of today, much less tomorrow. It is that same “shoot and send” aspect that has made cel phones so popular with so many folks with their family pictures. And, frankly, while my pictures of my dogs and grandchildren are examples of technical perfection, they probably could be taken with a phone. A small email jpeg is a small jpeg, regardless of its roots.

BTW, if you want to see some of Eric’s full framers

http://www.ericmeola.com/

 

[semilog]

Good point - so long as both smartphones and DSLRs use the same sensor technology DSLRs will always fare better.

They don't. Smartphones use (superior) BSI sensors. DSLRs, at present, do not.