Hi! Welcome to my beginners blog for SmartPhone photography
I’ve had a fascination with photography since I was a teenager (over forty years).
After going through the usual stages of film cameras, including medium format and twin-lens reflex, film-based range finders and compacts, I moved over to digital in 2008.
My first digital camera was the Sony a200.
Around 2015, I wanted to reduce the amount of camera gear I carried around, so I sold all my dSLR equipment, and moved over to Micro 4/3 with Panasonic & Olympus.
By 2017, smartphone manufacturers had made such huge improvements to their cameras, I started to take more and more image with my phone (at the time, I was using the Huawei P9 Lite).
Today, around 95% of my images are shot with my iPhone 14 Pro. The computational algorithms that smartphones use, take care of almost all the often reported concerns.
Kodak released the first professional digital camera in 1991. It was a Nikon F-3 fitted with a 1.3-megapixel sensor. My iPhone has a 48-megapixel sensor and absolutely produces professional quality images. I see it more as a camera that makes calls and can access the internet.
~Steve George
To me, the camera is a tool for my photography, in the same way that a pen is a tool for a writer.
Having a bigger, or more expensive pen doesn’t make them a better writer.
There are times, of course, when I’d like a larger sensor, or a specialist lens to get the exact shot I’m looking for. But, I’m finding it happens less and less often every year and the constraints often increase creativity!