Who Has Given Up Their Camera For Their Smartphone?

Just bought a new camera......it has more options and the quality of the pictures are superior. I only use the one on my cell when I do not have the camera with me.

I use both frequently

For what is't worth I use both camera and smartphone. I still use a $169 Nikon and can take a picture with it anytime that beats my iPhone, iPad or wifes samsung Galaxy. I grew up with regular SLR cameras and there is just something the phone cameras lack in quality. Many times I have taken pictures with my phone and my nikon. It seems the phone just don't have the contrast capability of the cameras. Don't get me wrong, the phone cameras take a darn good picture, but they just lack something in the contrast that the regular cameras have. I guess that's why you don't see Apple and Samsung working deals with Nikon, Canon and other camera mfrs.

I used to have a fairly nice cannon that i used all of the time. When it broke I replaced it with a newer model, unfortunately after spending $300 the picture quality was inferior to the older model.

Instead of dishing out the dough for something else, I'm currently relying on my smartphone for all pics. The canon just sits in its bag in my closet collecting dust for the last 3 years. So sad!

I gave up my sony digital camera years ago because its less convenient. However, I have wished I had it when travelling because I'm not keen on the idea of letting a stranger use your iPhone to take a family pic. They could easily run off with it and you'd never catch them. Sure, there is remote wipe, etc. but the fact is that you'd be out a ton of money to have to replace it.

I haven't given up my camera. In fact, I just bought my first DSLR camera. It beats smartphones hands down!

Like taking pictures of my grandkids with a real camera, not a phone.

I purchased a point and shoot digital camera back in december during the many holiday sales.

Unfortunately I rarely use it.

Yes sure i did, Got myself a Nokia 1020

http://www.nokia.com/us-en/phones/phone/lumia1020/

Not me. I have an expensive digital with a 25 power zoom lens that none of the phones that I've seen can match in quality, quantity of pictures, or ability to zoom in on a subject that may be far off.

My iPhone camera is pretty good, but it doesn't do what my newest camera does. My new camera has four propellers on it!

Amen... cell phones are phones no matter how hard manufacturers try to convince us otherwise... Can't make phone calls on a camera... not yet anyway...

The cell phones did not have the long zoom and other settings so I went with a wi-fi camera. Now while on vacation I just hit wi-fi, when available, and send the photo to family.
It is another thing that my husband asked if I needed and I told him, no, I just want it. He is so sweet...

I find myself using my cell phone camera more and more just b/c it is handy. I always have it on me. While I prefer my camera, convenience and portability are changing my habits.

I like to take my kids's picture with my Canon t2i, never with the phone. However, my wife is, on the other hand

I prefer my digital camera rather than my cell phone. Even though the cell phone cameras seem to continually be improving, the options on my canon g12 are too great.

Smartphone are for smart people who like to pay through their noses for a data plan.
I don't qualify I'm plain stupid

The smartphones are convenient and handy to have when I don't feel like lugging my camera around (which is 99% of the time).

However, I would never shoot a significant event such as a wedding or a vacation using a smartphone, unless I absolutely had no choice or forgot my DSLR.

The right tool for the job.

I just don't lug a camera around with me everywhere I go, but I always have my iPhone. It takes great pictures for my needs. So, I never worry about missing a picture with grandkids or friends. And "selfies" have become a big thing on social networking. Oh, and you can send the picture directly to Facebook or Instagram or other social media if you wish.

I would love to own a good DSLR, but just can't afford to spend that kind of money on a camera I will hardly use. And even when I'm traveling, I don't like to spend all my time managing the hardware associated with a large camera. So, I'm stuck with the iPhone. Lucky for me, it's a pretty decent camera, at least for my needs. Evidently, there are a lot of other people in the same boat!

My iPhone takes great pics and video and sends them to the mysterious Cloud. From the Cloud I can access my pics from my Windows 7 laptop and my iPad making it easy to share or post.

Saves lot's of time using the iPhone, no more taking out SD cards or attaching the camera to the laptop.

(been absent for while, but glad to see my topic is still around - Keeping Windmill Alive)

Came here to see if there was any info on Nuvi 52LM - I just bought one. I'll have to add it to my profile.

But it does not compare to even my point and shoot Panasonic.

With many others, convenient for quick snaps even with an iPhone 4 and 5Mpixel camera but I still have a real camera for when I want quality

I've lost my camera somewhere in our house (let alone the battery charger), so I use my cell phone for most pictures. The standalone camera, even 5+ years old, takes much better pictures than any cell phone I've tried, though.

I think I use the phone's camera more.

The real camera only goes with me for some planned event.

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Since I received my iPhone a few months ago, I started using it for routing (realtime traffic and avoidances is a big plus), and leave the nuvi for trip logging, and perhaps the occasional friend's address.

I thought we were talking about smartphone vs P&S and DSLR cameras in this thread.

"DonBadabon" said in part...

Not looking to ruffle any feathers here, but...

There is NO way a cell phones picture/photo capability is anywhere near the quality of a Canon T-5 or T-3, Pentax K-30 or K-50, etc., (or most any camera in that same price range), while being anyway comparable.

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I have DSLR, point and shoot, and phone cameras. Each have their advantages and disadvantages, but phones are getting very good.

On my iPhone I'd just use the GPS function to do that then use Street View to see the landing gate.

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My bad.

Just went to the Outer Banks. Used both my digital Pentax and my new iPhone 5c. The daytime shots were nice with both, but in low light situations I much prefer the flexibility of the DSLR over the limited functionality of the iPhone. I can't force the 'shutter' open on the iPhone like I can with the Pentax. Also I have the ability for optical zoom and aperture settings which far outweigh what Apple provides. I did get a few striking handheld iPhone shots though, so I can't say it's useless. Also, it's multifunctional and small. Can't get that Pentax to fit in my pocket.

My two cents.

Not totally sure if I'll leave the Pentax home, but I don't feel the need to have it at my side 24/7 when traveling any longer.

I have a 13MP camera on my phone and it works fine in good light or with the flash but if I cant use the flash in a darker area my older 10MP camera is much better. We just went to Universal Studios and there are a lot of places where you are not allowed to use a flash but you can take pictures. The people with the camera in the phone usually just put it away.

Use the smartphone for pics only occasionally.

Looked at the pix taken with both of the new iphones. The 6 plus definitely has a better camera, but I'm still on contract from the 5s for another year.

Too bad, because I really like the new iphone's camera.

Granted, a professional photographer can take a $10,00 point and shoot and make it function like a $1000. DSLR. I've seen them do it.

But for the rest of us the iphone is a really great quality P/S.

We have an obsolete, inexpensive Canon 8MP camera that takes great pictures but recently picked up a pair of Galaxy 5S smart phones. They have 16MP cameras and take really good pictures as well. I haven't done an A/B comparison of pics yet but it wouldn't surprise me if the Canon pictures were better overall, despite the lower resolution. Plus, I'm running CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) on the camera, which adds a lot of high-end features including allowing me to save picture files in RAW format, etc.

Since I have my smart phone with me, I wind up taking pictures with it that I otherwise would have missed to it's a pretty handy thing to have and the pictures appear to be very good.

There's a Nokia smart phone (Lumia?) which has something like a 44MP camera in it, not sure how good the pictures really are but that's higher resolution than a lot of very high-end SLRs.

- Phil

Did you transfer the pictures to a common medium to compare them? Like to your laptop or home computer? I'm just curious.

As I had mentioned before over a year ago I bought a Canon SX500i with a 30x optical zoom and 16 megapixel.

A short time ago my daughter mentioned she would like a camera which would let her take better pictures. Bought her the same camera one model newer.

She and her husband just did a European vacation and she got some tremendous pictures and is happy as a lark with the camera.

She has a BB with camera and husband an iPhone but the camera did perform far better.

Cell phone cameras have gotten pretty good over the years and definitely have their place in photography but they just cant replace a good quality DSLR yet. My wife and I enjoy all types of photography but especially enjoy photographing wildlife. Wildlife photography requires some special equipment, lenses, tripods etc. if you want professional or near professional results. In short, the smartphone is great for quick snap shots but for more demanding situations like sports, weddings, portraiture and wildlife, we have to lug around the big heavy equipment. Just my 2 cents worth.

They'll never produce a 1000mm lens for my iPhone. (Nor a 17mm wide angle for that matter)

Sure they have add-on adapters, but I already own the above two. Why monkey around with low quality stuff when I have the good stuff already?

I have still not given my camera up for a smart phone either-

I might be a bit late getting a smartphone, just two years ago. Haven't taken my Canon out for the past two years. Going to upgrade to a new phone in a week and will probably find even less chance of using anything else, but my phone. Makes it so nice to share right away, instead of waiting to get home or to a location where I can download to a computer. Once I find a good print app, will probably not have to download to a computer at all.

Know of a good app?

Needed some pics of protos for our startup. We did roughs with iPhone cameras...

But I did the real shots with a Nikon D90 and a Nikon macro lens that's got to be 30 years old. It knows how to photograph equipment!

The point-and-shoot pocket cameras are going away, no denying it. The cameras in smartphones are replacing the typical point-and-shoot stand alone cameras up to the couple hundred dollar price point range.

There is no comparing a smartphone camera to a high end DSLR. Yes, there are professionals that have produced wonderful images and videos with smartphones, but that is an extreme exception. 99.999999% of all imaging is fine with a smartphone, but there is still a place for the high end stuff. And a DSLR has capability that a smartphone camera just doesn't have - yet.

A friend of mine and I both have DSLR cameras and several nice lenses. We share pics regularly. He often thinks some pics are off my DSLR when they are from my iPhone 4S. With the right conditions, an iPhone takes superb photos, but that is rare.

A Yugo and Rolls Royce can both be used to go to the grocery store.

I can see an iPhone in the near future with the software to emulate a full fledged DSLR, with bracketing, EV compensation, shutter speed control, aperture control, full manual control, different exposure programs, etc. Or just ignore all that fancy stuff and use it as a simple point-and-shoot.

+1 ....even on the phone model!

If all you do with picture is looking at them on computer or tv screen they can look good even from phone camera. But if you are to print anything bigger than wallet size picture forget about phone and get real camera. Unless quality is something you don't care about.

You need a better printer.

The quality of pics from my smartphone, sometimes digitally edited, is good enough for me.

I gave up my Nikon SLR with three lenses for a high quality point and shoot 35mm camera. I gave that up for a good point and shoot digital. I gave that up for a good quality camera phone. Each step was a compromise because of convenience. I just never seemed to have my camera handy when I needed it the most. Now I don't have that excuse.

On the other hand, I wouldn't give up my dedicated car gps for the one in my phone but can't fault those who do, so I'm glad we can each have it our own way.

Using a phone for a primary camera is like using it for a primary GPS. It usually works fine but it is not the best at either. My Galaxy S4 is my calendar, video player, music player, music expert, health record, Web MD, book reader, video game, GPS, navigation charts, flight plans, camera, email, web browser, weather station, Theme Park Guide, Conference Guidebook, remote control, shopping advisor, text messenger, and I think it might make calls. I think it was designed to take over my life, it must have been designed by the pod people, who knows what it is doing while its sitting on my desk looking at me. The point is that it does everything well enough but it is not the best at any of them.

Got to play with an iPhone 6 for a while. Yes, the camera is better (and the display is beautiful).

Roughs and setups look good, much better than the camera in my (old) 4s.

Apps like Camera+ let you change the settings on the iPhone camera, and that helps a great deal (if you know what you're doing, such as compensating for backlight, deliberately shifting colour balance, and the like).

But I'll still do production shots with my Nikon, where I have control of everything -- especially what lens I use.