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Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by komali2 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:39PM (#16787897)
Interesting, I took a totally different perspective - as easy as it is to take a picture with my pixel 2, I get almost no satisfaction from it. No fun of choosing a good fstop, framing the shot, etc. Editing it later in Lightroom...

The picture taking I do on my phone is very different I do on my dslr. As for battery life maybe I'm not shooting enough but I've literally never "had" to charge it. I don't even bother bringing the charger anymore, the damn battery refuses to die. I just charge it after a trip or once a month at home. Fat SD card means same for memory.

Are you shooting in raw and editing your photos?

Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by ktta on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:53PM (#16787976)
>Are you shooting in raw and editing your photos?

Yep, I do the whole works. All of them in RAW, spending an hour or so editing in Lightroom (with favorite presets), have a flickr (like every other DSLR owner). But it stopped being fun after seeing that so many people do the same 'artistic' stuff, it doesn't feel like I'm doing something 'worthwhile' anymore. Now I just want to take photos and videos with friends. I find them more important.

I used to care about the right focus, shutter speed etc. But with a phone, if you use the portrait mode, you get something like f/1.5, and if you don't, you get something like f/18. So that almost takes care of the focus problem for a lot of cases.

When it comes to shutter speed, I use the high shutter speed when there are faster moving objects. That's a problem with a phone, but with enough photos taken quickly, one of them usually turns out good. People use low shutter speed only for long exposure shots like nightsky, waterflow, etc. which isn't a 'normal' photo.

Low light is one place I guess where a phone can't exactly do as well, but as I said, it just needs to be good enough, and not perfect.

About the battery of DSLR, often I don't take it out anymore, and between uses, the battery is so low that I have to charge it. So it leave it, and next time, its pretty much dead. Poor maintenance, but it again ties into if it is worth it.

Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by ghaff on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:31PM (#16788179)
I still shoot with interchangeable lens cameras (both Fujifilm and Canon) but I do use my iPhone more and more of the time. On a recent trip to Europe, I had both my Fujifilm with a couple of lenses and my iPhone X. Looking through my photos on Flickr, there are some that I obviously took with the XE-3 given the low light conditions. But for many of the rest of my edited/curated photos, I couldn't have told you which camera I used without looking at the metadata. Probably if I blew things up big enough and really examined the fine detail, but not with casual viewing at normal sizes.
Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by macintux on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:57PM (#16788010)
I prefer the careful manual selection of the shooting parameters and lens of a DSLR over my iPhone much like I prefer driving a stick shift over an automatic.

Unfortunately for DSLRs for my purposes, the joy of shooting one is vastly outweighed by the inconvenience of transporting it.

Once ICEs are dramatically less convenient than electric vehicles, I suspect I’ll give up stick shift too. Hoping that day is a long way away.

Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by incongruity on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:22PM (#16788130)
... the best camera is the one you have with you. I love my DSLR but now the multi-lens systems (iPhone X and others) that allow bokeh make it even less compelling to bring my DSLR. If they had a stronger telephoto option, it’d be a done deal for me unless I was shooting professionally again. Sure, I love the control of an SLR but I love always having a good camera with me even more.

Going beyond that, innovative ideas light the extreme mult-lens systems from Light start to offer features a DSLR can’t reproduce in a form factor closer to a smartphone. Disruptive innovation comes from flipping orthodoxies and that is exactly what we’re seeing.

Re:Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change by komali2 on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:32AM (#16790647)
I had never heard of the Light camera, that thing is crazy! Makes sense that it's 2k, I'm loving to see if anybody else tries to take a crack at this unorthodox system.