Phones 27, Cameras 0.

[Chris J]

Was by the Albert Memorial in London a couple of days ago when a coach arrived with a party of older teen/young adult Japanese tourists. All 27 went to the Memorial and started taking photos, but everyone used a phone - not a camera in sight. A few years ago I'm sure they would all have used compacts or SLRs -and from Japan they would have been using good gear.
And, 8 of them were using selfie-sticks.
Interesting snippet in one of the photo mags a while ago - someone showed his grandchild a "real" camera and it wasn't recognised for what it was - cameras are phones these days. Or vice versa.
Cheers, Chris.

[jimsphotography]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

Sign of the times I'm afraid. Having said that - I am often amazed at how good images taken with a phone actually are
James

[Tigger]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

my wife has a iphone6 and TBH Chris it takes pretty good photos - its got a great ISO range and she can take a photo faster than it takes me to get my backpack off.... needless to say I'll never tell her this ;o) ...plus she can make phone calls as well, maybe Canon should start adding phones onto DSLR's

[Alan_H]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

Ian shhhhhh I have movie mode on my 5D3 that I don't particularly want

Alan

[Tigger]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

Ian shhhhhh I have movie mode on my 5D3 that I don't particularly want

Alan

funny you say that for the first time yesterday I tried it - not bad really, not that I have any interest in using the 5D for video

[AndyMulhearn]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

On the subject of phones v cameras, this article from Thom Hogan is an interesting read... http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/...eras-2015.html

[jimsphotography]

Re: Phones 27, Cameras 0.

On the subject of phones v cameras, this article from Thom Hogan is an interesting read... http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/...eras-2015.html

Very interesting indeed - thanks for that
James