Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos

Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by PuffinBlue on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:46AM (#23401977)

> Also photographer here, I disagree that it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter to the people who would previously have paid for a product. That's the point being made.

Technical excellence will always matter to some, but the point the GP is making is that the quality of smartphones has reached a level where a larger and larger segment of 'people who would have paid' now rest within the smartphone circle on the Venn diagram.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by StavrosK on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:48AM (#23401990)

"Phones have eaten some of the DSLR market" and "it simply doesn't matter now" are not remotely the same, though.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by slantyyz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:32AM (#23403721)

> "it simply doesn't matter now"

If the OP is talking about the general public's perception, with most of them not being photography enthusiasts, I tend to think this rings true.

If you're a photography enthusiast, then yeah, not true at all.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by foobarian on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:52AM (#23402756)

I can sympathize with OP's post even if it was not precise. I feel like he was dejected about the fact that the mass market has previously subsidized the DSLR R&D and now that that evaporated the future of DSLRs is grim. But I don't think it's quite at the level of horse carriages :)

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