@maddiefuzz The difference between my iPhone - which takes respectable photos - and my Canon 7D with it's big lens, is pretty shocking sometimes. They're like seeing the same thing in an entirely different way. The iPhone can't hold a candle to the Canon, but... people can find it a rough truth to behold.
@kevinteljeur @maddiefuzz I don't know, the camera of my phone, which is quite a cheap one, makes pretty good pictures.
Much better than the pictures I used to take with a dedicated digital camera before that, or with analogical cameras before that.
But you have to put this into context: what's the objective of taking the picture?
I just snap a picture every once in a while and thus having a dedicated camera that takes better pictures has no real value to me.
Modern mobile phones provide a huge improvement over older consumer camera models and you don't need to buy an additional device.
On the other end, if you wish to work as a photographer or pick it as a hobby, clearly you won't be satisfied by the phone camera when knowing there's a better alternative.
I think that current phone cameras are great, even too good for the common person using it.
I'd prefer a reduction in the quality of phone cameras in order to lower the price of phones.
Indeed, pictures might generate erroneous beliefs in people looking at them, but I don't believe the solution is to give everyone the huge camera. I believe this set of pictures by @maddiefuzz to be a good representation of the distortions that happen while taking a picture.
@rastinza @maddiefuzz Neither of my posts is intended to argue, just in case it came across that way. Each camera is different, and as much as I love my SLR photos, they aren't 'better'. Just capturing different things in different ways.
@rastinza @maddiefuzz "The best camera is the one you have on you" - and I have countless photos taken with my iPhone because my Canon is an absolute pain to take with me. It is huge, heavy, requires planning and concentration to use well.
But once in a while I take it out because the photos, with their real bokeh, fine depth of field, detail, grain... They're really something. And again, they're also harsh, perhaps brutal, in their capture of what the lens saw.