Hi Brad,

Thanks for your comment. I’m understand my take isn’t everyones and am always happy to hear alternative viewpoints. I haven’t experiemnted with Adobe Project Indigo. It sounds promising in terms of IQ. But there is still something much more satisfying for me in using a proper camera rather than a phone.
All the best
David

I’ve been a commercial photographer most of my life (I’m 75 now), and have shot all the film formats from 4×5, to medium format, to 35mm. Once digital came along, I was hooked and never looked back. Most of my shooting now is with a Nikon D850 and the iPhone.

I’m a little more optimistic about phone cameras than you are I think. Do I see the differences you talk about? Of course. But with the advent of computational photography, those differences are becoming less and less.

Have you experimented at all with the Adobe Project Indigo app? It’s still in the early stages, but in my testing so far, those plastic skin tones, oversharpening and oversaturation issues are definitely being dealt with. The results I’m seeing are much closer to “real” camera images, and almost film-like in some ways

Resolution is still an issue, but that will come. Just thought I’d throw in my opinion for what it’s worth.

Brad

Hi Nate,
Thanks for your comment. While you are right in that I do have major issues with the processing and the handling I have shot Raw with phones which in theory should negate the processing problems but still find the images to be poor. Don’t get me wrong, you can get the odd decent ish shot in the right circumstances and light but in general, they don’t meet my quality threshold for anything other than record shots.

All the best
David

On Android (and possibly on Apple as well) you can process things pretty much however you want. Apps like OpenCam let you fine tune just about anything, from shutter speed to the edge detection algo used in sharpening – and it’ll also give you a raw file.

There’s still limitations to things like a lack if optical zoom and a fixed aperture, but if you want softer, more natural colors it’s still possible to do with a phone.

If it does what you want it to do and you’re happy with it then thats all you need.

They had a different look. Technically the best phone cameras now would perhaps be better but IMO that doesn’t necessarily make the phone a worthy replacement to a dedicated camera. I’ve not seen a photo from a phone camera that can compete with Micro fourth thirds or above sensor sizes.

Hi Dom, Well, I’m happy your wife clearly has excellent taste with a 90% ratio in favour of the real camera :-). And when you print them the difference show even more.