iPhones taking over from DSLRs

<p>It's on the Interweb. It must be true. Ask any iPhone shooter.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/05/move-over-dslrs-iphoneograhy-is-taking-over-professional-photography/">http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/05/move-over-dslrs-iphoneograhy-is-taking-over-professional-photography/</a></p>

<p>Note their illustration image appears to have been taken from Flickr</p>

<p>Well now I know that Epson makes a well designed DSLR and is a great choice.</p>

<p>Apple is going to edge Epson out of the DSLR market? Say it ain't so!</p>

<p>But anyway. It's May of 2013 and major web sites still thinking "An iPhone is sometimes more useful than a big camera because it's always with you!" is news might in itself be news. That silly Chase Jarvis book came out 4 years ago.</p>

<p>Let's cut her some slack. It's her first blog, still in college and a little wet behind the ears with lots more to learn. </p>

My first reaction was this was probably an old article, written a couple years ago. Then I noticed the date.

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<p>Let's cut her some slack. It's her first blog, still in college</p>

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<p>Fair enough.<br>

My first thought though, why iphone ? Android has 75% of the market<br>

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-iphones-market-share-is-dead-in-the-water-2013-5">http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-iphones-market-share-is-dead-in-the-water-2013-5</a></p>

<p>Just goes to show that you really don't need to know anything to be an expert on the Interweb. I want's me an EPSON DSLR. I hear they're really good.</p>

<p>BTW the most popular cameras on Flickr right now are (based on the number of images uploaded per day, according to their own statistics) are:</p>

<ol>

<li>iPhone 4S</li>

<li>iPhone 5</li>

<li>iPhone 4</li>

<li>EOS 5D MkII</li>

<li>EOS 7D</li>

</ol>

<p>They had over 290,000 iPhone 4S image uploads yesterday. They had 107,000 uploads from the 7D. Android based phone don't make the list probably because there are hundreds of them so no one model makes the list. If you added all the adroid phones together, they might rival all the iPhones added together.</p>

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<p>Let's cut her some slack. It's her first blog, still in college and a little wet behind the ears with lots more to learn.</p>

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<p>She's at college? I assumed she was about 12!</p>

<p>She obviously hasn't heard about the yet to be released Epson Mk II DSLR.</p>

Given that my company won't let me even keep a camera in the car, the iPhone is what I have with me all the time. I've

taken some decent shots with it, but it's hardly the equal of a full DSLR. Also, the user interface of the iPhone is great as

a phone, but lousy as a camera. It's awkward to use, even with other apps. You'd basically need an enclosure to slide the

camera into to get good shutter buttons, good controls, etc. That's possible but I don't know of one. And even if you had it,

you'd really just have a point and shoot camera.

 

 

So iPhones probably ARE replacing the point and shoots people used to carry, but not professional cameras, though real

photographers are probably not above taking an occasional good shot with their iPhones when they don't have their gear

with them.

 

 

When the iPhone camera is the NEX-7's 24MP Sensor and it and it has interchangeable lenses and at least an APS

sensor, then you can worry.

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<p><em>"My first thought though, why iphone ? Android has 75% of the market"</em></p>

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<p>Probably because iPhone has become synonymous with cameraphones like Kleenex is to tissue paper, or she might not know what an Android is. </p>

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<p>She's at college? I assumed she was about 12!</p>

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<p>From the original article:<em><br /></em><br>

<em>"Melanie de Arakel is a photo geek, iPhone enthusiast, coffee addict, gamer and film freak."</em><br>

How many more descriptors can she cram into her "title"?<em><br /></em></p>

<p>Well, she is an iPhone enthusiast, that's for sure.<br>

The title mentions something about "Insight". The article sure had none of that, it was pure fanboi talk with frightingly little substance. Wired.com tends to be a bit better than this. And so the internet keeps filling itself up with misinformation :-)</p>

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<p>If you added all the adroid phones together, they might rival all the iPhones added together.</p>

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I'd hazard a guess that just Samsung alone out sells iPhone</p>

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<p>The iPhone allows photographers to take pictures of objects that they would usually pass by. They allow people to capture moments so that they may be turned into memories. Trash cans, busy streets, and even people turn into embodiments of the world around us.</p>

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Hmm, I don't know if I ever tried to shoot a trash can with my DSLR before but I'm pretty sure I shot busy streets and definitely plenty of people.</p>

 

She's partially correct however.. I tried the Epson Invisible IID model and it can't shoot jack.

<p>She's really cute, though... ;)</p>

"She's really cute, though... ;)"

 

Only when shot with an iPhone.

<p>I suspect the backlash from her writing will prompt a little more caution on her next essay. It's a clear case of youth, inexperience, and lack of broad base knowledge that causes this type of misperception which Wired.com is responsible in its poor judgement in giving the essay visibility. </p>

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<p>Now that is pretty cool.</p>

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<p>Sure it is.</p>

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<p>"If you added all the adroid phones together, they might rival all the iPhones added together."</p>

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Bob, or did you perhaps mean just on Flickr? I'd bet that to be true.<br>

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I've been using this database lately for just screensizes while making a couple new websites. The stats are an eye opener. <br>

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<a href="http://screensiz.es/">http://screensiz.es/</a><br>

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<p>Nice to have a laugh this morning.<br />But she does repeat one truism -- the best camera is the one you have with you.<br />I do use my iPhone for snapshots when I don't want to lug my bag of "real" gear. And I am amazed that I can shoot and upload an image from and to just about anywhere in the world, and that the end product, in terms of resolution and tonal quality, exceeds what we used to get with wirephotos back in my newspaper days. (Not to mention that it's color.) It used to take film, a darkroom, a 20-pound photo transmmitter and a landline phone line to do that.</p>

<p>The problem is that her article, if carefully scrutinized, reads like an Apple sycophant who is so immersed in her own illusion that she is completely unaware of the existence of alternate realities - the article title "Move Over DSLRs, ‘iPhoneography’ is Taking Over Professional Photography" is ridiculous enough for readers to dismiss her viewpoint even without further reading. </p>

<p>It's one thing to highlight the benefits of cellphone photography which doesn't take a high school diploma to recognize; it's quite another for her to suggest it's taking over professional photography when we have yet to see anything more than cellphones shooting within their technical limits, and very limited they are unless your requirement doesn't call for anything better. </p>

"‘iPhoneography’ is Taking Over Professional Photography" is ridiculous enough for readers to dismiss her viewpoint even without further reading."

 

 

I don't know. A lot of people here talk about the public's perception, arising from the digital revolution, as bringing ruin to much of the professional photography market. Even if pros don't use iPhones. It may be one of the more accurate statements.

<p>Personally 5.5 inch screen is just small to really to see anything<br>

but a 6x9 screen that's a different world completely:</p><div></div>

<p>It is a generation that won't ever want a better camera than the one in their phone.</p>