iPhone vs. Leica M-9P Photo Comparison

Dumb. Yeah, it stacks up if you're viewing this image with deep depth of field on the web and just glancing at it before you scroll to the comment section, which is where the real entertainment is. Outside of that it doesn't hold up at all.
 
I make pretty nice photos and videos of my family with it instantly sending it off if I want to. I believe the article shows just how much the photography market is changing.

The Leica market is small. Hopefully it's not getting so small affecting its ability to survive.
 
Objectively, smart phone photography improves significantly every year.

The thing is... practically all the damage to still-camera market share is done.

At this point the remaining battle in the still-camera market is over who will survive over the next 5 years or so. In my view Leica will do just fine. Other brands will have issues (lose market share). Japanese companies are very patient so there may not be much change at all.
 
I don't get it, at a very brief glance the Leica shots look so much better and that was looking at them on my computer screen. Details that are washed out in the tiles as highlights in the phone pic are very apparent in the Leica images. etc etc.

But I would not be surprised if in a few years phones become better than most cameras, because their software is better.

it doesn't matter to me though, as I hate taking pics with my phone, but love doing so w my cameras.
 
I still have the iPhone 6. It doesn't compare well against any camera I have. The 7 is not that much better.
 
I bet that if you put similar (same subject, conditions) Olympus Trip shot (on cheap Kodak Gold 200) next to iphone7 and M9 it will not look inferior in this type of comparison. So if Oly Trip cost 20$ it beats both M9 and iphone?
 
PittaPixel=dumm.
Where is no comparison. I just used today iPhone and similar to m-9p camera.
IPhone is great for selfies, panoramas and video. Leica is for classic photography from family portraits to street photography.
 
I've got an M9-P and a series of iPhones (currently I've got a 6s) and the iPhone is a perfectly capable camera, when used with a few smarts.

And, as always, the best camera is the one with you.

For instance, here are two shots, one from a Ricoh GR and one from the iPhone:


Saltair Pavilion, July 21, 2014 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Saltair Pavilion, July 21, 2014 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

But it's pretty tough to beat the M9-P and C-Biogon:


Saltair Gift Shop, July 21, 2014 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

Still, they all did work I'd be proud to show and they all print up fantastic.
 
If anything the iphone is very much more like a Leica than any other digital camera.
It has just the stuff to take a high quality pic, instead of being weighed down with buttons, weird options and complications that turn people off other digicams.
 
Maggieo,

Thanks for showing your photographs.

I do use and enjoy making photographs with Leica cameras.

But I just happened to see a link to this article on Facebook, clicked it on to read, and thought I would share here.

The new smartphones can produce photographs that are pretty darn good now as you show. It's almost scary the quality they make.
 
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