Take a look at
these great iPhone 6 photos posted in the World Gallery
While all new
Android (Samsung) and Apple iPhones take great photos, I think the magazine
reviewers give Apple a slight edge most of the time (maybe not all of the
time). This collection surely makes a
believer of anyone who thinks smart phone cameras can’t compete with point and
shoot “real cameras”.
I converted to
digital photos so many years ago, I forget when it was, 1980’s probably, with a Kodak brand camera, a point and shoot. It had
maybe 2 MP, and yet, with the great lens it had, I got amazing photos, some of
my best “ever”. I loved the camera, and
subsequent Canon point and shoot cameras were good, and smaller, but not always
did the photos look dramatically better than the Kodak camera.
It was a convenience factor.
Then, later and smaller Canon point-and-shoot cameras (with great reviews)
became my next acquisitions. But, I think
their photos are not as good as the first generation Canon’s. And the wide
angle and full feel of the old Kodak is still a miracle in my mind == I never
bought a roll of conventional film after I mastered the Kodak camera battery life problem
(using rechargeable AA batteries) and the methods to print the photos on
quality paper with an old HP color printer.
By the way, it was not a cheap printer (ink jet) but it produced the
best glossy prints I have ever had. I
saved them all as proof. Subsequent
printers, of HP or Canon brands have done less and less well, the last one, a
well rated Canon make terrible prints, unacceptable. So I quit printing glossy
photos. And my favorite Kodak photo editor that fed those great prints was once
acquired by Microsoft and put on the Office Suite CD. Microsoft then dropped it and on-line downloads from other sources are now incompatible with Windows 7, or I
would still be using it. It was the best, and easiest to use, and most
logical of the several photo editors I have used. Microsoft now offers a
lesser quality editor, I believe, but I haven't tried it since the interface didn't appeal to me.
I say all that to
say that not all advances really “advances” in my book. I think software and cameras are sometimes
pushed into clever niches by marketing, and engineering and quality suffer. The
iPhone interface has, with IOS-8, been better in most respects than their prior operating systems. But the screen views
are now pale and less easy to read (in my opinion) that prior IOS
versions. When they get a winner, why
not just add quality and features, and not disturb a wonderful user graphical
interface? I keep my old phones just so
I can compare them side by side, to prove my point. The old screen graphical interface and font
choices are clearer and easier to read.
PS – Apples 6
cameras have some super exotic focusing system, almost down to the last
pixel. Watch the introduction videos (September 2014) on
YouTube to see Tim Cook explain it.
Certainly it is hard to conceive of such a complicated system being put
in such a small package and in a phone, no less. Miracles never cease. Ansel Adams would be impressed.
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