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That doesn't sound right at all. DSLRs like my Canon do indeed have a larger dynamic range but they are still nowhere near being close to the dynamic range the

That doesn't sound right at all. DSLRs like my Canon do indeed have a larger dynamic range but they are still nowhere near being close to the dynamic range the human eye can capture. Moreover, the native image rendered by DSLRs still has a linear transfer function that still suffers all the issues that HDR tries to solve. This is why auto-bracket exposure is a thing on all DSLRs so you can try to capture high dynamic range scenes in multiple photographs that you then need to combine offline in separate software. And the sad fact of the matter is that computational photography on phones, especially when it comes to HDR, makes it absolutely no hassle to obtain exceptionally good HDR captures 80+% of the time. I've literally taken back to back comparison shots of my son on a bright sunny day on a boat when on the ocean and my smartphone picture (S9+) was far superior to my DSLR image, even after trying to capture details from highlights/shadows in postprocessing. Phones these days can perform a lot of neat tricks to reduce noise, capture large dynamic ranges and compress it all into a pleasing HDR image in fractions of seconds that lets you achieve great HDR images even with moving subjects (something notoriously hard with a DSLR). Not that DSLRs don't have a whole host of other advantages when it comes to image quality and depth-of-focus, etc, but HDR is not one of them. It is almost the sole reason why I've been reaching for my DSLR less and less when on vacation.

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
The DSLR captures pictures and then you post-process them. The phone can dynamically adjust what it captures, and potentially capture way more data (quickly slurping a gigabyte of image data into RAM) than a DSLR can push to persistent storage in an acceptable timeframe. Together with the phone always being in my pocket, while a DSLR is bulky, I've gone completely with the phone. I just wish the computational photography developers and the camera engineers would come together and make something that uses the far superior hardware of the DSLR combined with the far superior software originally designed for phones.
- _coveredInBees 6y ago
  Yeah, it's a similar situation for me. Though large prints from phone photographs are pretty poor in comparison to the image quality from even my entry-level Rebel Xsi from 2007. Sports photography with a good lens is still something that a camera phone will never rival, but in most day to day situations, it has surpassed DSLRs purely out of convenience and being good enough (and in the case of things like HDR/low-light photography, better than a DSLR in many situations).
formerly_proven 6y ago
> Moreover, the native image rendered by DSLRs still has a linear transfer function Capture RAW+JPEG of a scene with dark shadows and bright highlights, the camera clearly isn't using a linear transfer function to get from RAW to JPEG. With something like a D7200 you can literally have the sun in your picture and still get both detail in the sunstar and the clouds, while also having detail in the sun's shade, with an out-of-camera JPEG.

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago

The DSLR captures pictures and then you post-process them. The phone can dynamically adjust what it captures, and potentially capture way more data (quickly slurping a gigabyte of image data into RAM) than a DSLR can push to persistent storage in an acceptable timeframe. Together with the phone always being in my pocket, while a DSLR is bulky, I've gone completely with the phone. I just wish the computational photography developers and the camera engineers would come together and make something that uses the far superior hardware of the DSLR combined with the far superior software originally designed for phones.

_coveredInBees 6y ago
Yeah, it's a similar situation for me. Though large prints from phone photographs are pretty poor in comparison to the image quality from even my entry-level Rebel Xsi from 2007. Sports photography with a good lens is still something that a camera phone will never rival, but in most day to day situations, it has surpassed DSLRs purely out of convenience and being good enough (and in the case of things like HDR/low-light photography, better than a DSLR in many situations).

formerly_proven 6y ago

> Moreover, the native image rendered by DSLRs still has a linear transfer function Capture RAW+JPEG of a scene with dark shadows and bright highlights, the camera clearly isn't using a linear transfer function to get from RAW to JPEG. With something like a D7200 you can literally have the sun in your picture and still get both detail in the sunstar and the clouds, while also having detail in the sun's shade, with an out-of-camera JPEG.