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Cameras would be handier to use if they did have instant upload to Facebook/Flickr/FTP site/DropBox in an easy-to-configure, easy-to-use manner, and if they could accept Apps for various tasks, but it seems that the Japanese camera industry has almost zero clues about the Internet Age, so I do not expect any rapid movement in this direction until leadership changes occur at the various camera companies. However--the Nikon D7200 now comes with built-in WiFi and built-in NFC capability, so...that's a two-part nod to the modern era. Baby steps, I guess one could say, baby steps.
eh, at this point I think the conversation has morphed into "how DSLRs could take a few lessons from cell phones" which IMHO is as fruitful as most convo here.Also, I'd like to say:
Right. Think about the photojournalism we see today. Mostly it's shot on cell phone cameras, because the news cycle is too fast for DSLRs. Wifi in cameras has bridged the gap somewhat, but most of the images that end up having impact are taken on a cell phone and then tweeted out. As much as we may long for them, gone are the days of an event being covered with a Leica and then the pictures surfacing days, if not weeks or months later. If the image isn't out there within hours, it's often obsolete in a lot of photography genres.The convenience of the cell phone camera is its thin, easy-to-pack form factor and its good stills/good video shooting capabilities, plus its super-easy communication with other people and their phones, as well as social media connectivity, and App-based expandability. Overall the cell phone of today is easy to use, powerful, and instantly connected. All these things above, all of them, make today's smart phone super convenient.
Camera sales are dropping off world wide because today's smart phones make everything that the majority of today's picture-takers want to do EASY to accomplish; people want to take pictures and also videos, and then use them and share them, mostly through social media and web-based sites...currently this is the BIGGEST single place that photos and videos are being used, but cameras for the most part, cannot do any of the things the majority of people want to do, without a lengthy series of steps...the first of which is ,"Return to home base to do everything that follows..."
Cameras would be handier to use if they did have instant upload to Facebook/Flickr/FTP site/DropBox in an easy-to-configure, easy-to-use manner, and if they could accept Apps for various tasks, but it seems that the Japanese camera industry has almost zero clues about the Internet Age, so I do not expect any rapid movement in this direction until leadership changes occur at the various camera companies. However--the Nikon D7200 now comes with built-in WiFi and built-in NFC capability, so...that's a two-part nod to the modern era. Baby steps, I guess one could say, baby steps.
"Which is better (or more necessary as a photographer's accessory), the highly portable and convenient-because-its-always-in-my-hand smart phone with a camera, or the much higher quality (although its a little heavier) and more-fun-to-use-because-of-the-more-convenient-and-professional-features DSLR camera?"
Touch has made menus a bit easier to operate, but again, phones already do this better by leaps and bounds.I hate txting on my Nikon, they really need to improve the UI.
Touch has made menus a bit easier to operate, but again, phones already do this better by leaps and bounds.I hate txting on my Nikon, they really need to improve the UI.
the actual camera functions of my Nikon beat out my Samsung phone ten fold. I'll take dedicated buttons/wheels over a touchscreen interface any day.
and who cares about the processor and other fancy gimmicks if it can't simply take a good picture?
I hear apple is competing with Rolex now too, they designed a watch that can't even last 24hr on a charge. but the touchscreen is pretty cool.
Touch has made menus a bit easier to operate, but again, phones already do this better by leaps and bounds.I hate txting on my Nikon, they really need to improve the UI.
the actual camera functions of my Nikon beat out my Samsung phone ten fold. I'll take dedicated buttons/wheels over a touchscreen interface any day.
and who cares about the processor and other fancy gimmicks if it can't simply take a good picture?
I hear apple is competing with Rolex now too, they designed a watch that can't even last 24hr on a charge. but the touchscreen is pretty cool.
i have high standards, unlike your sluts
I don't necessarily think the legacy approve to DSLRs is correct (designing them to be exactly like film cameras), and I will agree that they are WAY behind the curve in terms of utilizing today's tech/innovation, but cell phones can still barely give me the quality I've been used to shooting digital since the mid 90s. My current SG5 camera probably can match my old 1997 Sony Mavica in terms of IQ.
also remember I like to talk in hyperbole.