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Are mobiles slowly killing the consumer camera market?

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*Fuzzypiggy Jul 10, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I'm sure this has come up before and it's probably a bit moot given the bods that frequent this forum using all manner of camera kit, but what do you think?

Sure the average mobile phone has a silly little lens and pokey sensor, compared to even a $100 pocket point'n'shoot with a proper glass lens but the results from mobiles are improving release-on-release and often quite stunning in the right conditions.

Or is it simply bunkum put out by mobile phone makers trying to ensure the next version of their flagship mobile phones sells well?
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~Yenneferx Jul 22, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
In polish is the proverb. When there is something for everything then it is for nothing. I don't know the equivalent of it in english. But it's true, the mobile phone is still a phone, not a camera. Of course everybody sometimes use the mobile to taking photos. I do it very often when i want to copy some notes etc. But it's not about making good photos. Sometimes you can take a good photo by mobile phone, but... probably it could be great or amazing when you have a camera or DSLR.
Of course mobile phone will be better and better in doing photos, but the cameras too are better and better.
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Mood: Neutral *martineriksen Jul 19, 2012   Photographer
It is possible to take good photos on a phone, and I have seen several good images that way. As the technology is right now, a good DSLR with some good lenses is far superior to any camera on a phone. But some day that may change ....

Try to look at the product behind the link below. Several companies have similar products, and may be what is coming in the future. [link]

Also it is not only photography that has be affected by the mobile wave, but also music, like IPhones being used as guitar amps.
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~craigblackmoore Jul 18, 2012  Student General Artist
I really don't think the type of camera makes too much of a difference. It's what you do with the camera.
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`FallisPhoto Jul 21, 2012
That's only true if you are talking about a fairly narrow range of equipment, not too different in quality. Cameras do have limitations and you can't get past them, no matter how good you are.
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~photomark Jul 11, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
The market is changing as the tech changes , the attitudes of end users are also changing as the tech changes.

Believe it or not there are many people that think you only need an iPhone to be a professional photographer , I had one enterprising young man try to tell me that anything more than an iPhone is just a wast and your paying for a name more than anything, this person obviously had no idea about anything as he also believed that his iPhone would take better photos than the 4 x 5 large format I was using simply because it was more modern tech.

I will admit that the photos that this person took were very good but only because he had some talent for taking photos even though he himself did not believe this and though it was the camera.

It does not realy matter what people like him think and do , he will very soon realize just how inadequate his camera phone is if he wishes to go further with his photography.

For the home snapper who only wants to take family happy snaps and the like you just cant beat a camera phone or any of the low priced P&S and this is where the market is aimed although there has been a lot more claims from makers that there $100 P&S gives pro results without the price and people look at magazine printouts and samples and realy believe they to can take photos that good.

Right now there is an incredible choice of cameras on the market from prices ranging from $10 to $100,000. Of course there are not many of us here that can afford to go spend the cash on something like a Hassleblad HD4 65 (65MP) or some of the new digital backs that go up to 80MP but it is very annoying to come across people who think that a $500 phone is just as good simply because that is all they can afford and the advertising tells them so.

Camera makers will tell the consumer anything they want to believe.
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~Mclandis Jul 13, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
he also believed that his iPhone would take better photos than the 4 x 5 large format I was using simply because it was more modern tech.

A little bit of me just died reading that.
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`FallisPhoto Jul 18, 2012
Reminds me of a guy I met on the Blue Ridge Parkway, when I was taking night photos of the Roanoke Valley. I was using one of my restored medium format folding cameras and I was bracketing around 30-second exposures. He was using a compact digital camera. I offered to let him borrow my spare tripod, so he'd get at least one good photo. He said, and I quote, "That's okay; I have a flash."
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~Mclandis Jul 19, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
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`FallisPhoto Jul 20, 2012
There's nothing there.
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*Fuzzypiggy Jul 18, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I well remember heading up to the top of the empire state building around '99 at night. I bought little 6inch pocket tripod in times Sq as I knew I would need at least 10-15 secs to come away with something. When I got up there so many people shooting NY at night just firing off their flashes. Of course this was a few years before digital so no instant feedback, I can imagine quite a few disappointed trips back from the chemist/drugstore after picking up their photos!
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