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Ah, so that's what's causing it...

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Oh I dunno...you could pass it off as Bokeh effect

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Mobile phone ... little sensor, little glass, will never make the grade.

But wait, "computational" photography is the future, to the dismay of camera enthusiasts.

A phone's macroscopics should not be underestimated when powered by pinhead mega chips, terabytes of nanotechnology.

The result is good enough for most.

We've reached a stage where crappy little cameras produce fab images for our computer screen, and old world cameras are really only required for when printing big.

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Haha, my suggestion comes from years of experience producing disasters in the salt air.

I have a hunch my photos would look like mud next to yours!

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and smartphones now have 2, 3, 4 or more rear cameras. Multiple pictures are taken, merged together in-phone, giving you artificial but pro looking results.

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I am not entirely convinced by that, the sensor is a fair point but miniaturisation will surely continue until the wave length of light becomes a limiting factor. (As wavelength is becoming a limitation in electronics)

But the lens less so because phone cameras must surely be getting close to the most perfect of all cameras - the pinhole camera.

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When I go out with the camera, the overriding feeling I have is one of excitement. You just don't know what you are going to meet.

Once you have met the scene/subject/image you want to photograph, then decisions have to be made as to how you want that image presented and this is where the creativity comes into play - there are so many variations.

Using an i-phone or a point and shoot has to be the most boring method of photography ever.

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Oh I dunno....I found them handy when I took a shot of the upturned car in my street last year.....or the riot police who thought there was a bomb nearby and surrounded the place with armed police. No time for setting up my digital SLR, assorted lenses and tripod then, I can tell ya!

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I guess that's the difference between going out to take a photograph, and taking a snapshot of something that you just happen to notice on the way. That is where, I think, the camera phone comes into it's own. Personally, not being a "photographer", I hate being lumbered with a camera wherever I go even if on holiday or whatever, but as I generally have my phone then that solves my problem, and I would say 90% of the time my snapshot of a person or scene is as good as any other camera, at least to my eye

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I don't think it really matters what you took a photo with, if your happy with the result that is all that matters. No one can ever take the perfect picture as people have different ideas. However you do get those that seek perfection so good luck to them but it is not me.

I said previously taking videos stirs my interest more.Ok I have been taking them for 10+ years now and being able to see a video one takes is a different concept.

seeing things like this would be hard to remember 10/11 years on when I shot this


Hopefully the new camcorder will cut out a lot of this type of camera shake