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ilkka_nissila wrote:
Well, the thing is that an ILC will be able to do this also, Snapbridge is a little slow, but soon enough all the images you shoot will also appear automatically in the camera roll of your smartphone and you can post them with or without edits. ILC users can have creative controls that smarphone camera users don't, and these have some value also for the social media generation.
This may be the case now, but it remains to be seen how things change in the future. I suspect that schools will adjust and force a change in the attitude of kids. That is, if society is to function in meaningful way in the future.
Well, the irony is that this is a really bad way to take photos. I guess there is no irony, the masses often choose something that doesn't work well at all.
Holding the camera at arm's length is a shakey proposition and it's hard to control the framing of the image and keep it steady. Furthermore if it's sunny, and for some curious reason, a lot of people want to take photos when it's sunny, you can't really see much if anything from the screen of the camera. And because the lens is rubbing against all kinds of abrasive materials in their pockets, any image shot against the sun will be fuzzy and have a lot of flare, so people are forced to shoot with the sun behind their back (you see, they decided that it is best to take photos in bright sunlight), which means the subjects will be squinting and look terrible.
Squinting faces of others, and nose-englarged selfies: that's what the mobile photographer gets on a routine basis. I have more faith in people and believe that these looks will eventually go out of fashion and people will again appreciate properly made photographs and view the 2010's as the era of caricature and narcissism.
I don't know, but I suspect they might. Not to cheap compact cameras as they don't really give enough of a distinction from smarphone cameras, but some kind of ILCs and high-end point and shoots, or better yet, ask someone who knows how to take a photo, to take it.
Yes, they want to show themselves as squinting-eyed people with large nose and distorted faces amplified by approriately caricaturic expression.
Well ILC users are a far larger group than those who actually take the time to learn photography, so in that sense far too many have ILCs.
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Nonsense.
99.99% of all photos ever taken, in numbers that have both defined and sustained the entire photographic industry, have been vernacular photos, the equivalent of selfies or snapshots. Today's smartphones have image stabilizations calibrated specifically to counter arm's length photography techniques, and produce sharp, often stunning quality given the sensor size and other limitations of the medium. The lenses and RAW processing in-phone have reduced almost completely the distortions you generalize. and Google have taken the "time to learn photography", put it into excellent hardware and software and algorithms that eclipse most consumer ILCs from a decade ago. They work very well, indeed, and are superior as imaging devices to most cameras I grew up with.
By contrast, the Japan Inc. photographic industry is now in a tailspin. Their products are often over-engineered, (D7xxx series), confusing "crippled" model differentiation, with a staggering disconnect in software design and connectivity options. Japan Inc., in a time of photographic expanse, has created so much friction between the end user and the tool that they've created a market decline of their own making, nearly completely dependent on another stagnant market (laptops and desktops). Blaming the consumer for poor taste is not what I see. I see out of touch products playing last century's game. Hence threads where we openly worry about Nikon's survival.
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and the iPhone 6. 
nice to see the AUR up a bit though