Is Smartphone Photography Really Smart?

M.J. Martin's avatarVividcomm

People can be very opinionated and even downright belligerent when it comes to photography.  Emotional debates have raged about which is better, Nikon or Canon.  Now, there is a new thorn in the side of these serious amateur photographers, the rise of the smartphone, which is largely displacing classic photography with near real-time ‘snap and post’ social media.

CN Tower 2 A DSLR excels at landscape photography.  This is much harder for smartphones to do well.

They argue vehemently over which camera is best to use.  The line between using a quality still camera, like a DSLR (digital single lens reflex), versus a smartphone, is blurring dramatically in the world of consumer photography.  There are some very strong opinions that polarize the points of view to one extreme or the other.  The DSLR crowd do not see the smartphones as actually being cameras, but the average photographer today is snapping more pictures with…

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