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The camera is not dead

1.2 trillion photos were taken with smartphones in 2017 alone. It’s still growing but digital cameras are far from dead

I’ve been taking photos with my iPhone at least since the first one was in my hands, ten years ago.

I recently resumed taking them with my camera, to understand how my relationship with a real one had changed. I continue to publish more photos taken with the iPhone because it’s easier and faster, but I’d like to share some considerations I did about the difference between mobile photography and the good old DSLR cameras.

1. Image Quality
   DSRL (or mirrorless as well) disintegrates any mobile phone in terms of quality. Mobile photography has evolved to incredible levels until a few years ago but a photo taken with a camera has a kind of feel and vibrations that no cell phone can deliver. Paradoxically — although they both are digital media — it is as if the DSLR were the vinyl correspondent in the digital music scene. They’re not better nor worse: they’re different, and by different I mean “something that vibrates”. Clear, right?
   Vinyl are said to add some kind of depth to the listening experience; DSLR do the same, adding a sort of 3D effect that are almost impossible to get with a smartphone (although they find out some software trick to do something similar…