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I was at a party the other day and took pictures of people dancing, drinking and being silly. They were spontaneous photos I took on my phone. To me that's what phone cameras are for. What's the hard on for all these super-duper camera options? Who the f*ck has the time to set it up or have the subjects hold still for the perfect shot? Camera quality is waaayy down on my list when looking for a new phone. A decent camera is sufficient for me.
Am I alone on this?
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The thing is, on inexpensive Chinese mobiles, they're often below par.
With Facebook and instant sharing, quality acceptance has come way down, and you're right, usually good enough is good enough. Enough to show what's happening and save the moment.
Now cameras in middle priced phones are actually quite good. A lot of people won't know between a decent camera in a phone and a "real" camera, especially because they're looking at such tiny sizes on Facebook and that sort.
What settings do you mean? I rarely adjust mine.
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Part of the problem is that people just don't know what they're talking about.
Usually the great images we see are processed to hell. Even the ones from expensive DSLR. Almost never will you see a real photographer put up pictures straight from their camera. They're usually going through extensive processing, and usually through several apps before the final product comes out. So people are comparing these to they're cell phone pictures and being over critical.... It really depends who you are, but there is a wide difference in quality at the lower end of phones ($40-250).... This is part of the reason for caring so much about camera.
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I'm referring to two similarly priced mid to upper midrange phones where people start going off on RAW (whatever that is) and all sorts of features as if they're professional photographers.
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So I guess we're pretty much all in agreement on this one?
The debate came up in a comparison between the OP3 and Axon 7. For me the Axon 7 is a better overall package than the OP3 with an sd slot, speakers and solid US Warranty. I also prefer the styling as it looks nothing like any htc, apple or samsung which has become too common from manufacturers. Then the OP3 supporters brought up the cameras and their infinitesimal difference, spouting all sorts of irrelevant jargon.
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Right. For a geek or cameraphile, camera specs can be heady stuff. Some people may equally scoff at caring about style. You know, each person has different things important to them.
To the point of the thread.., if you took a picture in good light from any decent sensor phone, no one will know the difference. Even if compared to an expensive dslr (depends on picture of course, for subject separation, the dslr will slam them).
It also could be argued that even when editing a RAW, vs editing a jpg very few people, if any, will notice a difference.
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