With the convenience of digital, you can easily do the test I did above with your decent sensor and see where yours rank. Simply pick a perfect exposure and overexpose a stop and see at what point it becomes unrecoverable - RAW if you want.
From my test above, Kodak Portra 400 past +10 overexposure was still recoverable as shown. Not as convenient to do with film but fun . . .
I use the camera viewfinder, rather than an iPhone, to "get some vague idea of what the photo will look like on film."I almost always take 2 photos, one on film and the other with the phone. The phone photo is my equivalent of taking a polaroid -I get some vague idea of what the photo will look like on film.
I use the camera viewfinder, rather than an iPhone, to "get some vague idea of what the photo will look like on film."
For me, both film cameras and phone cameras are tools. The phone camera is a utilitarian tool (I use it to quickly log what section and row I parked in at an airport... mall... / to record dents in a rental car before I take it off the lot/etc.- oh yeah... cat photos, too). The film camera is a creative tool. Still, I have no qualms with those that see the phone camera as a creative tool. I've seen interesting work from people who take it seriously.
+1In one sense, it is the one you have (phone) vs. the one you don't have (the 35mm P&S at home).
I've forgotten to bring my P&S with me more times than I care to remember (sitting right by the front door ready to go), but my phone is clipped to my belt and my wife's is in her purse.
Personally, I would rather use a P&S film or digital camera than the phone camera. But that is just me.
I would also rather use my SLR than the P&S. But I am not carrying the SLR every place I go. And I have missed MANY pix because of the hassle of pulling out the SLR.
Each piece of gear can go things the others cannot do, so each has it's place in the tool box of a good photographer. And it is up to the photographer to select the best tool for the job.
Which isn't a bad place to live!Anyone who thinks a phone isnt a powerful imaging tool is living in the past.
enough saidI use film cameras. Period.
A decent phone can be used from hollywood films to photobooks. Its an incredibly powerful device.
I prefer a 16 or 35mm point and shoot but thats only because i dont like to use a computer after work.
Anyone who thinks a phone isnt a powerful imaging tool is living in the past.
Now, I know this is an analogue only place and I don't want to offend anyone but since most of us have mobile phones with a camera we probably consider it to be a useful point and shoot in itself. My friend asked me an apples and pears question about the benefits are of using a pocketable point and shoot 35mm camera over a phone. I thought I'd put it to you here. Aside from the obvious case for the look of film and the love people have of the process. I guess we would be talking about quality most of all. Surely the lenses are superior and detail extractable from the negative is on a whole other level.
...The community doesn't give enough credit to cell phone companies for making the biggest innovations in photography since digital arrived.
I couldn't agree more with this. The fusion of photo technology, photo software and rapid sharing/distribution is the future for digital photography, and the phone is leading the way with this.
To me digital has always been different than film and through the phone we are finally beginning to see that difference. What has gone before has been a phase where digital has tried to mimic film.
Film will always be with us, much the same as painting survived the introduction of photography.
But along with this forward march of technology comes fragility. It is the painting, and maybe the print, which holds out the promise of long term survival. And that, after all is said and done, is analogue.
There is this push that there should be revival of easily accessible compact cameras. But, if the reason for a compact camera is almost all convenience, I do not understand how people actually believe it can compete with a phone.
not to mention that the iPhone costs a lot more than a 35mmP&S.I carry and iPhone 6s all of the time but also carry a true point and shoot also; an Oly Trip 35 and nobody is ever going to mistake an iPhone print from a true darkroom print from even the lowly trip 35.
I don't have to pay for my IPhone. I have to pay for my P&S. Take it back I don't have any P&S. All of my cameras offer manual focusing and at least aperture priority exposure control so that I can alter the exposure if needed.not to mention that the iPhone costs a lot more than a 35mmP&S.
A decent phone can be used from hollywood films to photobooks. Its an incredibly powerful device.
I prefer a 16 or 35mm point and shoot but thats only because i dont like to use a computer after work.
Anyone who thinks a phone isnt a powerful imaging tool is living in the past.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?