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> Modern advances in digital sensors/lenses/flashes/post-processing makes everyone able to take professional quality photos. For newspapers, maybe, but the tin
by tomc1985 6y ago
> Modern advances in digital sensors/lenses/flashes/post-processing makes everyone able to take professional quality photos.
For newspapers, maybe, but the tiny optics on phones rule out a lot of photographic techniques, to say nothing of sensor quality when trying to pull 20+ MP out of a sensor the size of a tab of acid
My iPhone 11 Pro still takes crap pictures compared to my FX (or even DX) camera body, and that's with all of Apple's idiot-proofing AI bullshit
- lopmotr 6y agoOf course, otherwise those fancy cameras would have no market and disappear. Just like film is pretty much completely gone now, as are glass plate cameras. The truly inferior tech disappears and what's left fits some extreme niche where it surpasses the cheap consumer stuff in some way. There are things you can do with a PC that you can't with a smartphone too.
- tomc1985 6y agoThat's incredibly optimistic of you to call the PC dead. I really, really, hope (and am pretty sure) that you are wrong
- girvo 6y agoI think the death of the PC won’t happen until phones and similar have the same power user capabilities as one. As long as we need a PC to build things for our phones, they’ll exist in some form. The PC for everyday regular usage though is indeed dying. My girlfriend has an iPad Air with the keyboard case from Apple and it’s her primary computing device!
- lopmotr 6y agoNot death of the PC! Just the presence of more numerous and cheaper smartphones. They're superior to PCs for most people but not for everyone.