With The Camera Function On Cell Phones Getting Better, Will There Be No Future For Cameras?
Sorry, i didn't make myself clear.
The cameras i meant are those cheaper ones, not those used by professionals.
Yes. A $600 phone will replace a $99 camera.
But a true cellphone should be a phone first and a camera/browser/pda/mp3 player/videoviewer second.
Right now, 7-10 megapixels is common among point & shoot compact digitals. It's rare to find a cellphone camera that is even as high as 3 megapixels.
Just like the brief grainy videos that modern cellphones give us, (and in no way threatening any real video cameras), cellphone cameras are a convenience, not a real choice for any photographer.
I can't think of too many people who go on a tour taking only their cellphone to record those once-in-a-lifetime memories. I've spent way too much time trying to help people enlarge and get "great" photos out of their small cellphone files. There's only so much digital information there.
Remember, as the technology of the cellphone rises, so does the technology of digital cameras.
There will always be a future for high quality images created with cameras using interchangeable lenses and having 24mm X 36mm or larger sensors or from 4×5 or 8×10 view cameras.
I doubt you’ll see many photography exhibitions hanging 4×6 prints of dubious quality. 11×14 and larger prints will be the ones exhibited.
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While they are getting better as cell phone cameras, they do not have sensors the physical size necessary to provide professional quality images. So, yes, the future of the camera is stable for now. Check back in a hundred years.
I think if you sat down and thought about it, you would see that the missions of a cell phone camera is much, much different than that of the cameras used by news and sports agencies, medical, magazine and advertising groups
Hold one of the new $5,000 DSLR’s with a nice 70-200mm f/2.8 lens in your hand and try to imaging a professional photographer using anything less substantial. Then hold the entry level DSLR with its lens that costs under $500 and note that they use the same lenses and are made by the same companies. Now try to fathom getting the same performance from a cell phone camera.
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Cell phone cameras will never replace a real camera!
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They will drive the price down.
I have a good camera to take “real” pictures. The ones that I would blow up to poster size or for weddings and hikes. I normally carry around a coolpix5900 for snapshots of reminders or of friends and family. The pictures are good but I am looking forward to the Nokia n96. That would allow me to carry one device for my phone, PDA, camera, and MP3 player. However, I believe that the guts of the optical side of it will also be sold in other products as well. If not a low cost camera then as part of a nanny cam system.
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Yes. A $600 phone will replace a $99 camera.
But a true cellphone should be a phone first and a camera/browser/pda/mp3 player/videoviewer second.
Right now, 7-10 megapixels is common among point & shoot compact digitals. It’s rare to find a cellphone camera that is even as high as 3 megapixels.
Just like the brief grainy videos that modern cellphones give us, (and in no way threatening any real video cameras), cellphone cameras are a convenience, not a real choice for any photographer.
I can’t think of too many people who go on a tour taking only their cellphone to record those once-in-a-lifetime memories. I’ve spent way too much time trying to help people enlarge and get "great" photos out of their small cellphone files. There’s only so much digital information there.
Remember, as the technology of the cellphone rises, so does the technology of digital cameras.
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