I am going to be upgrading my Blackberry very soon, what phone are you guys using to take snapshots? Iphone? Android variant? Windows? I wish the new Nokia ran on Android ....
I have migrated from a PC environment to a Mac one with 27" iMac, 17"MBPro, 64B iPad4G & iPhone 4S & use Photoshop CS4, & Aperture 3, with Canon gear & continue to be surprised how well the iPhone copes with most lighting situations.
My Business is Architecture & Property and the iPhone is a very efficient tool on site & dealing with all communications with contractors & clients, when it comes to the crunch the 50D & a 10-22 canon lens is difficult to beat.
I have two very nice cell phones for snapshots. Sony-Ericsson Xperia Arca S 8MP, IS, Pano, HD video, point at the screen for focus and shooting & Android.
And a Sony-Ericsson Satio 12MP
iPhone 4S. While not the hands down best camera, it does have the best selection of apps and for me, those are what can take a camera phone from being a tool for drunken snapshots at the bar to share on FB into an actual creative tool.
With some HDR and Pano apps, not to mention ones that can do stacked exposures, the overall quality of files you can produce are pretty impressive and honestly better than some early digital cameras I used to carry.
I've actually got some smaller prints framed that look quite nice and its pretty amazing to me to think that we've gotten to the point where they were taken with a phone! Though to be fair, I also find it amazing to think that I've got a touch sensative device that also can respond to my voice, access the internet, track where I am in the world, give me email, play movies and music and everything else the modern smart phone does. We've come a long way from the days of when my Motorola Razor flip phone with its 2 color LCD display was cutting edge
iPhone 4S for general smartphone / quality camera stuff. It's got the best camera of the major high end smartphones (at least for now).
However, that 41MP Nokia IS the best phone camera in existence. I wrote a post on it a while back, and some of the image samples and discussion is there. The fact is that when downsampling the 41MP images to a more typical 8-12MP, you get REALLY high quality files...and not just for a phone, but for pretty much any fixed lens compact camera, save perhaps the Sigma DPs and Canon G1X. http://admiringlight.com/blog/the-future-of-casual-photography-is-here/
Comparing the two crops on their site, the 8MP image has better colours, but worse sharpness. I am not so impressed with their downsampling algorithm, to be honest. With 41MP source files, it ought to be possible to get *really* sharp 8MP files.
Also just to mention... Tha iPhone is only the most popular. I dunno what's available in the US but in Japan there's a whole buttload of cellphones with much better cameras in them. I think the iPhone benefits from the same RDF (Reality Distortion Field) effect that some of Apple's other products do. People only think it's "the best" when actually it's far from it.
Please show me comparisons from such iPhone 4S vs whatever cellphone cameras I have heard lots of people saying things like this, but in rigorous tests the 4S has won so far...
since I am involved in the production of some apps, I got a "company" iphone 4S a couple of days ago, but I haven't had time to try the mentioned app or the iphone itself much.
-also enjoy the hilarious dpreview discussion of the name of this app , which seems to refer to the format, (I think 3:4 in this case), rather then MF.
It is a little crowded, but the 645 is good because it (to my knowledge) the only app that can give you completely uncompressed JPEG or TIF output from the camera. The TIFs are even made with no adjustment - no contrast, saturation, sharpening, nada...just raw data converted to TIF and pushed to the memory. It's as close to iPhone RAW as you can get. Of course, the uncompressed JPEGs are big - close to 13MB.
carstenw wrote:
Please show me comparisons from such iPhone 4S vs whatever cellphone cameras I have heard lots of people saying things like this, but in rigorous tests the 4S has won so far...
I have heard lots of people saying things like this, but in rigorous tests the 4S has won so far...