phone camera quality has already peaked years ago, why do normies still think they care about better cameras? this photo was taken on a midrange motorola from 2019. something like the iphone 6s still takes perfectly fine photos too
A typical phone's camera that isn't specifically billed as being good for photography still has poor focusing and produces grainy images. Take a tight shot of a plate of food, a common task, and actually try to look at details rather than just swiping past it, and this quickly becomes clear. Real cameras are still needed unless your task would be satisfied by a sixteenth of the resolution provided.
>>108009687>fell for the camera meme in 2026No, nobody needs a camera anymore. Phones have been on par with DSLRs for at least 5 years. A phone can make a better photo in a quarter of a second than you can make in an hour of adjusting settings and editing. Stop coping.
>>108009703Learn to read.
>>108009731I did read it, your point is just retarded. You clearly regret buying an expensive camera and feel like you need to justify it.
>>108009703phone lenses will always be worse than a cheap ass 50mm 1.8 canon prime shit lens with a 20 years old dslr.for the average joe sure, but if you care about photography no.
>>108009741Learntoread.
>>108009703>Phones have been on par with DSLRs for at least 5 yearsHow delusional are you? No smartphone comes close to my DSLR especially with my good lenses so either you are blind, retarded or both. Camera phones will never be as good as DSLRs because of physics and no amount of A.I. image post processing that the camera phones will never change that fact.P.S. Kill yourself.
>>108009763>>108009767
>>108009552>Worse quality than a digital camera from the 2000s.
What are you even doing here?
>2026>still the best photo technology
>>108009552>this photo was taken on a midrange motorola from 2019>722x963That was probably scaled down from like 4000x3000 with basically no loss in quality. Because the camera is shit.
>>108009775Why did you post an image of your reaction to my post? Are you retarded and emotional? Like some kind of woman?
>>108009775>>108009832Attaching a reaction image to your post and trying to attribute it to the other person instead of yourself really is the perfect symbol of the total fucking retard tourist that has come to 4chan.
>>108009703Speaking out of your arse or making shit up is an old habit of yours? I've kept an old point and shoot Nikon Coolpix S6800 camera for fun and it still takes better photos than all the big name flagships of 2025. Maybe in another decade the smartphones would match it.
>>108009552Gotta be bait, right? That quality looks like shit compared to my 200 megapixel chink phone camera.
>>108009687>Take a tight shot of a plate of food, a common taskNo this is not a common task. I'm not a middle aged woman attempting to farm likes on social media.
>phone camera quality has already peaked years ago>posts a low res smudgy picture>>108009703>Phones have been on par with DSLRs for at least 5 yearsnot even close lmao, phones are essentially better point and shoot cameras>>108009789film photography is pure soul
>>108010065Where did that post say that it was common for you? For posters on this site? Nowhere? Gee, I wonder why. It's like the middle aged women and dumb bitches with similar aspirations make it a common task. Fuck off you stupid nigger.
Take raw photo, raw sensor photo.Put it trough pirated Adobe denoising.Profit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwJ_nPJXjU
>>108009552>this photo was taken on a midrange motorola from 2019And you still downscaled it to hide the artifacts.
>>108010027Goated camera on par with mirrorless for less than $200 bucks btwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEMB9UuO9-U
>>108009868>keeps seething and being even more retardBless your heart
>>108010027>>108010179Looks like over processed/sharpened garbage to me.
>>108010193
>>108010197>Nooooo, it's too sharp, it has to be shitty and blurryKek. 0 post processing btw.
Camera forums online have been top tier faggotry for as long as I can remember. Watching "enthusiasts" seethe as phone cameras became more accessible and obsoleted their entire hobby was a pleasure. They're still bitter about it hence this thread.
phones will never be as good as cameras because of the physics involved. the sensor size has a massive effect of not just resolution but many other things as it affects lens design and opticsa modern iphone has a 1/1.56"which is huge for a phone
>>108010027Some more pics I took while out and about.
>>108010232
If I hadn't replied to this thread, it would have slid off to page 10. It is now abundantly clear that it was made purely to attract people to be "trolled." He's even going so far as claiming that the reverse of what's happening is what's happening ("They're still bitter about it hence this thread").How does one come up with such a mundane and irrelevant thing as material to troll about?
>>108010245nah he's literally right. digital photography is for gearfag retards. actually, they'll fit right in on this board I guess.
>>108010207
>Maximum file size allowed is le 4mbLame.
>>108010245I'm NTA you schizo. Sorry nobody likes your stupid hobby
>>108010210The post processing is done on the camera retard and yes being too sharp where the edges pop unnaturally is bad, just like having too shallow of a depth a field. ITT a bunch of uncultured retards that know nothing about photography talking as if they know anything.
>>108010256>>108010237>>108010232These photos suck, I don't know what you are trying to prove?
>>108010262>>108010269Bait.
>>108010107Taking a picture of a plate of food is not something anyone should be doing unless they're advertising food or taking pictures for a menu.If you're hanging around anyone that considered it a "common task" then you're as retarded as they are.
>>108010273Learn to read.
>>108010296I read it. My point stands: You're stupid and that's why you hang out with stupid people. I'm happy you smug stupid people that don't know anything have had your hobby killed off by smart phones. It's one of the few things that was good about them.I've been working in dark rooms since I was a child as part of a printing company and working with digital video since 1996. I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know. You're a waste of space just like your stupid pictures are a waste of data. No doubt you're one of those people that farts out their every thought on social media for attention then gets offended when everyone tells you they don't care about anything you have to say.
>>108010273what you say about my mom yo
>>108010328She's pretty and you should tell her how much you love her.
Anecdotal but since the smartphone I have never seen someone attractive with a camera. Whenever there's someone walking around a national park or something with a DSLR they're always an asian, balding white dude or pasty nerd. Occasionally the elusive fat woman in a bucket hat. Really sums up the hobby.
>>108010271MasturBait
>>108010232>>108010237>>108010256>shitty sharpening>edge halos>noiseYup, phone sensors are still shit. But they're good enough for what you can carry every day.
>>108010392>shitty sharpeningMatter of taste/preference. I like it. I always turn off all the blur filters and such in games to make the image as sharp as possible. It looks much better that way.
>people not using phones to take photos make me MAD!Jesus Christ some of you cunts really need to kill yourselves, what a miserable life you must live
>>108010406>Matter of taste/preference. I like it. I always turn off all the blur filters and such in games to make the image as sharp as possible. It looks much better that way.Shitty sharpening is what causes the edge halos.This doesn't occur in games when you turn off things like blur filters and motion blur.Oversharpening in photos is gay.
>>108010418>people using phones to take photos make me MAD!I think (You) need to kill (You)rself
>>108010145>Uses perfect lighting, tripod, cherrypicks the best one, applies software wizardry etc. Mo indoor shot of moving objects, no tricky lighting situations.
>>108010467>cherrypicks the best oneWelcome to photography. Professional photographers take hundreds of photos, then cherrypick a handful of good ones. This is nothing new.
>>108010418You vill give up your interest, identity, location and you vill be appy, goy.
>>108010475Yeah, fuck the real world scenarios. Gotta shill to eat these days.
>>108010495>Yeah, fuck the real world scenarios.Absolutely.
>>108010406>comparing photos to video gamesYou're fucking hopeless and have bad taste
>>108009759complete bullshit, my iphone takes infinitely better photos than my canon dslrthe dslr cant help itself but clip the whites in auto mode
>>108010531>Being this mad about the fact that people don't have to spend upwards of $2-5k to take decent photos anymoreI have great taste and I'm not a sour loser.
>>108010546>complete bullshit, my iphone takes infinitely better photos than my canon dslrComplete bullshit.>my phone does auto hdr photos and i don't know how to do it on my camera!
>>108010145The sony photos look better, they don't have that painterly smoothing on the skin from the noise reduction filter they use, the images all have the wide angle distortion that makes faces look bad and the colors are inaccurate.
>>108010546>using auto modeDo you still use training wheels on your bicycle little dude?
>>108010568Oh, the sony camera is better, no doubt. But is it that better to justify dropping a small fortune on it? Probably not. Definitely not if you're not doing photography for a living. That's the thing with cameras these days. You can get a phone with a decent camera and everything above it, no matter how expensive, will just be marginally better with diminishing returns.
>>108010601First of all I would never buy a sony camera because I use Canon.Second of all I am not poor.Third of all I would never be caught dead using an android phone.Fourth of all the quality is worth it, life is too short to settle for mediocracy especially when it comes to my artistic photos.
>>108010562i shoot both in raw, even entirely bypassing the iphone image pipeline, you troggy
>>108010618>First of all I would never buy a sony camera because I use Canon.Good for you. I wouldn't waste my money on either.>Second of all I am not poor.Neither am I, but I didn't get here by spending $5k on obsolete tech, and I'm not about to start.>Third of all I would never be caught dead using an android phone.Your loss for ignoring technologically inferior tech for some retarded social reasons. What are you, afraid of being made fun of by your zoomie peers? Fucking consumerist retard. I own an iPhone and a Xiaomi phone, and my Xiaomi is superior in every way, from user experience to camera quality, while costing only a fraction of the price of the iPhone. I will never in my life waste a cent on Apple iWaste ever again.>Fourth of all the quality is worth it, life is too short to settle for mediocracy especially when it comes to my artistic photos.Phones these days are good enough to produce results that can match or rival expensive, thousand dollar pro photography kits, while being compact and easy to carry on your person.
>>108010645superior*
>>108010645>settling for good enough and not the bestHow many girls have you given the "ick" with your green bubbles? Let me guess you can't even get girls phone numbers lol. Women love my BBC, Big Black Camera and love letting me take photos of them with it. No girl is getting worked up over shitty phone photosAnyway enjoy you coping for your mediocracy and being poor also kissless virgin (I can tell by the way you write btw).
>>108010670Here, ladies and gentlemen, is a prime victim of marketing and the perfect consoomer. A brainless apple drone who thinks that paying 1000% more justifies a 10% improvement.
>>108010632>thinks phone raws actually bypass the image pipelineHa.
>>108010670>How many girls have you given the "ick" with your green bubbles? Let me guess you can't even get girls phone numbers lol. Women love my BBC, Big Black Camera and love letting me take photos of them with it. No girl is getting worked up over shitty phone photos>Anyway enjoy you coping for your mediocracy and being poor also kissless virgin (I can tell by the way you write btw).
>>108010601you don't need to spend nearly as much as 5k for a camera+lens combo that performs better than a phone on almost all occasions, regardless of digital or analog.if you don't care good for you, keep using your phone to take photos, but there is an easily perceivable difference.
>>108010713I wish modern instant cameras were as good, fun and soulful as they were 20-30+ years ago. Nowadays it all looks like some garbage taken with a digicam and printed on a cheapo printer.
>>108010583just seems like another win for the iphoneNO i dont want to dedicate my precious brain power thinking about the exact settings i need to capture a moment by the time ive finished fumbling with the settings the moment has passed
>>108010690yes
>>108010682How am I a victim if I get paid? No one is paying me for shitty phone photos lol. Just admit you are a basic bitch and move on.>>108010708Nice selfie you got there but I'm actually fit and not american
>>108010928>I am double digit iq retard and I need training wheels to take photos and must let the computer make all the wrong decisions for meFirst of all, there is AV and TV mode, AV mode give the aperture priority and TV give the shutter priority. It literally takes me half a second to set up a photo even with the focus. You clearly know nothing about photography yet you feel the need to talk about it with confidence like some kind of redditor.
>>108009778Correct. It's literal dogshit. Most of it is fake anyways. Just a bunch of shit filters masking a cheap cmos censor. My fd mavica from the 90's mogs this shit on every possible metric.
>>108010553So you're a sweet loser then?
>>108009552post-effects are more important than camera quality now.if a normie looked at a raw picture he'd think it was a bad camera because phone do so much more to make photos and the people in them look good.>>108009703>Phones have been on par with DSLRs for at least 5 yearsno, that's physically impossible because a big lense has advantages that can't be remedied with software.
phone cameras are fucking garbagethey are only decent if something is right in front of them with good light
>>108010107Nigger if they gave a shit about details you think they would upload it on insta with a filter you fucking pants on head retard
>>108011231ive been doing photography for 20 years now and i think you need to shut the fuck up
>>108011589I don't give a fuck what you think.
>>108011630whatever you say man
>>108011642What an ironic image because you're the one who was thinking about and still thinking about me. You're #obsessed
>>108011685
faggots in the thread
>99/100 people at any given moment have an ultra-high-def, easy to use handheld camera in their pocket that does pictures and videos>Can't get a decent photo or video of anything paranormal whatsoever>If something does come out, it's still a blurry, pixelated, shaky messThis world is exactly as boring and gay as you think it is.
No.Even less nowadays with ai enhancement that destroy details, specially on fagPhones
>>108011754>awkward framing>misaligned>all the detail concentrated in background>no detail in foregroundthis is not a very good photographereven this 19th century photograph captures kiyomizu-dera more faithfully with more character
phone cameras are good enough for casually taking pictures which is what most people do. phones have replaced the point and shoot camera, they can't compare to a proper camera with a real lens. there is more to photography than pixels on a grid, registering the projection of the lens on the sensor is only one part of the process there is much more going on before and after
>>108011877>they can't compare to a proper camera with a real lensexcept they do and are often superior (phone simply has more processing power)i am willing to bet that the ONLY major discerning factor between phones and dslr/mirrorless cameras is that phones are stuck at a petty 26mm focal length
>>108011872Yeah, I would have taken a photo more like that if possible.That place is far more crowded all the time now and they constantly have areas closed off for rebuilding and work.But I also like the backdrop view over Kyoto, so fuck you.
>>108011948>processing powerholy retard phones doing a million things to get a picture out of their microscopic sensor is only an advantage when you're snapshittinga photo is made in the darkroom or in a raw editor
>>108011954none of that would be a problem if you actually learned how to frame and set your f-stop properlyif you have a zoom lens i suggest setting it to a fixed focal length (35mm is nice) and leave it aloneif you dont, god have mercy on your soul
>>108011998>holy retard phones doing a million things to get a picture out of their microscopic sensor is only an advantage when you're snapshittingall digital sensors require a metric ton of processing, a phone is just better at it simply because it has more compute powertheyd all look like picrel without>a photo is made in the darkroom or in a raw editorbad photographer cope, i barely have to edit my raws
>>108012014It looks like I had a 11-16 lens on there that day (which is part of the reason why it is so soft around the sides).
>>108012110editing a photo and your SOOC phone ai slop are not equivalent >bad photographer cope, i barely have to edit my rawssnapshitter and proud
>>108012149i use lightroom to edit my photosusually on my computer since i like a keyboard and mouse but sometimes on my ipad if im holiday
I just like muh camera, simple as>>108012014Stop being autistic it's a fine pic of kiyomizu-dera. Focal length and framing makes sense to contextualize vs kyoto
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>>108011948>stuck at a petty 26mm focal lengthAny portrait under 35mm is ugly, 50mm is decent, 75 is idealI'm glad you admit that phones take fundamentally ugly photos
>>108009552it still looks like trash and nothing like my eyes. Also needs like 10s to capture a single picture thats still shit. I hate it.
>>108010546skill issuehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1l7mV2y-zI
>>108014753Left looks better
>>108014767>left makes my fragile masculinity feel better
>>108009703>Phones have been on par with DSLRs for at least 5 yearsmaybe if you don't care about picture quality, sure.
Precision-worshippers, shut up!All of the photos in this thread are fine (techincally, not necessarily compositionally) except for this one: >>108012110Unless you are using your camera to faithfully archive a document or a painting or something, the bar to reach "good enough" isn't very high.
bring back CCDs
