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Will a phone ever be anywhere as good as a DSLR?

My tax advisor thinks it’s okay

Mine too. But he refuses to give me the money.

EDDS - Stuttgart

This is one of the first shots I did inside with the D4.
ISO 6400, 70-200 mm lens … 1/50th s, f8, handheld … NO noise reduction applied!

Just out of curiosity, alexisvc, in that night shot you used 1/320s to get the moving cars still and not blurred ?
Wouldn’t a slower shutter speed do the job ?

A still learning Canon 60D Prosumer asking humble question here !
Some of my “trials” http://www.flickr.com/photos/biriskyp/sets/72157627499042920/

LGMG Megara, Greece

Hi there!
I am sorry that I didn’t mention this – but I didn’t do that night shot, it was from some official Nikon website. I only wanted to show how little noise the D4 produces. Well, it depends I guess … a longer shutter speed and blurred cars can be nice too, it’s just another style.

By the way … Have you ever flown to Milos airport? I have a friend living there and maybe I want to fly there this spring. MAybe combine it with a trip to Athens or Crete. How expensive is Megara?

Excellent pics, Petakas.

However, you do have some good material to work with, down there in Greece We will be back in September with the TB20 – the Aegean.

When I used to go on holidays in the 1980s to places like Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Monument Valley, etc, I used to take ~ 30 rolls of 36-exp film, and if I had been going to Greece I would have been doing the same.

Eventually, about 8 years ago, I scanned in the slides (about 5000 were left after I chucked out the less good ones). I had quotes from 50p to £10 each and even at 50p it was cheaper to buy a top Nikon scanner plus a bulk feeder and then sell it on Ebay. The scanner was good enough to show the individual grains on just about anything apart from Kodachrome 25 (which due to the “25” was a rather useless film in practice) and with today’s gear everything is so much easier. I now have a Pentax K3.

Last Edited by Peter at 27 Feb 08:44
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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

alexisvc I answer in new thread so as not to hijack this one

Last Edited by petakas at 27 Feb 08:56
LGMG Megara, Greece

Hi Peter,
I did the same .. with +30.000 (work) slides. Bought a Cooolscan 5000 and the bulk feeder and started. When I didn’t have time anymore I paid an unemployed freind to scan the rest. And later I took the 5 big boxes from the basement, full of photos, negatives and slides to a guy in the countryside who scanned them all onto hard disks . Cost a fortune but now my analog days are over! The Coolscan 5000 I still have – and the price for used ones went up so much (becasue they don’t make them anymore) that I should now sell it on ebay …

Coolscan 5000 sounds familiar – £2500 or so?

I can’t see anybody wanting them except as a one-off job – because digital photography overtook film about 10 years ago, in every respect except specialised stuff e.g. very low light B&W, and I think even that is gone, with today’s ISO50000 sensors.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Yes, but when I bought it in 2005 it was “only” about € 2000. I could get that for my used one today …

To get back to the original question posed, no, a phone can never be as good as a DSLR because of the size of the sensor and large aperture of the SLR. The images I produce on my D700 with a prime lens like a 50mm f1,4 are unbelievable quality, even if my skill as a photographer is limited.

However, to capture the moment the phone camera is superb. I have an iPhone 5 and as someone said earlier, the quality is amazing, and certainly good enough to record some memorable experiences.

Darley Moor, Gamston (UK)
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