I agree: taking pictures with a phone is like eating dinner with a hair brush.
Pretty well every time I try to get a shot with my "smart" phone, I manage to exit the app while attempting to press the shutter, the fixed wide angle is useful for almost nothing, and the noise, JPEG distortion and low dynamic range make the results -- if any -- useless for anything including Facebook. I've given it up and I leave the thing in my pocket rather than frustrate myself with it. That thing about the best camera is the one you have with you fails to take miserable phone cams into account. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul you really hit upon my problem. I just don't like phones for taking > photos. They don't feel right in my hands and I feel silly using it that > way. I also don't look for or see pictures if I don't have a camera with me. > And yes I have missed photos because I did not take out my phone. > > I guess I also like the controls and the option to use different lenses even > if I never do. But I do envy the talent some folks have for taking great > phone pictures. > > On 3/15/15 7:12 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Message: 5 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:10:07 -0400 From: paul stenquist >> <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: So Q close Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> Content-Type: >> text/plain; charset=utf-8 You don?t have a phone? >>> >>> >On Mar 14, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >Donald Guthrie wrote: >>>> >>>> >>Recently I felt I needed a small camera to to have at hand. In a fit >>>> >> of >>>> >>madness & loyalty I bought Pentax Q7, the toy that is a little more. >>>> >> >>>> >>Here is a small group of closeups on the ice. Standard PP and little >>>> >>cropping. >>>> >>All comments welcome. >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >>https://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/sets/72157649014670004/ >>>> >> >>>> >>https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5KaBDf >>> >>> > >>> >I looked at them on my phone and thought that they were nice, but when I >>> > looked at them on a real computer screen I was forced to revise my >>> > estimate >>> > upward. >>> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
