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Not even close. The pocketable point and shoot cameras? Sure. DSLR’s? Not a chance. I’ve gone the upgrade path from a canon 6D to 5D4 to R6. The R6 especially i
by vGPU 3y ago
Not even close. The pocketable point and shoot cameras? Sure. DSLR’s? Not a chance. I’ve gone the upgrade path from a canon 6D to 5D4 to R6. The R6 especially is phenomenal and there isn’t a single phone that can even try to come close to what it can accomplish even in “auto” mode.
- _2d30 3y agoI thought I read DSLRs are dead? Everyone is making mirrorless now?
- sbarre 3y agoThe point he's making is about the sensor and the glass, not the mechanics of the camera body?
- neogodless 3y agoThe R6 is marketed as a mirrorless DSLR. Obviously the SLR part isn't accurate but the way you use the camera with interchangeable lenses is about the same. So for the user it's just a technology and feature upgrade more so than a new product.
- haswell 3y agoMost of the manufacturers are focused on mirrorless, but the DSLR market is still alive. Pentax has bucked the trend and has continued to release new DSLRs as recently as this year.
- FalconSensei 3y agoppl also use DSLR to refer to the body type
- sib 3y agoMostly, yes, but not completely. A better generic term might be an ILC (interchangeable lens camera).
- vGPU 3y agoIt’s essentially become a common term like Kleenex.
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- afavour 3y agoThe point isn’t technical ability, it’s market share. And smartphones have decimated DSLR market share despite being less technically able. I’m a data point in that: I bought a DSLRs and a few lenses probably 15 years ago. Over the years I used them less and less to the point that they’re gathering dust now. It isn’t worth the extra bulk when I head out the door, smartphone cameras are good enough.
- ben7799 3y agoIt's the content of the photos that matters though, and on that front unless you're into very specific types of shooting most people don't care about any advantage "Pro" gear brings. If you're out there shooting a hundred basketball games a year or you're camping out in a swamp every weekend to get a picture of a bird it matters. But that was never the majority of people buying "Pro" and "Prosumer" camera gear. For the vast bulk of the market the smartphone camera gets the job done at a fraction of the cost, way less stuff to carry around, and a much better workflow. Too many hobbyist photographers seem to miss the forest for the trees here, no one cares about how sharp the picture is or how much dynamic range there is if the content of the photo isn't compelling.
- FalconSensei 3y agoAlso, for someone doing street/landscape/portrait photography just for fun and instagram, iPhones will give you a nice image out-of-the-box. Fuji and Ricoh also do this with their built-in "filters", but it's more involved and specific. And you still need to send the pictures to your phone after. But my experience with a Sony is that you need to do at least an auto-correct on Lightroom/whatever before sharing.
- ben7799 3y agoCanon has nice configurable presets and has had them for a very long time if you want to avoid Lightroom/whatever. But an iPhone/Android is much much less conspicuous, which is a huge advantage for street photography.
- vGPU 3y agoYou’d be surprised. Quite a few “amateur” or “instagram” photographers are buying them now because mirrorless tech has greatly improved affordability. The sales numbers show a nice uptrend over the past 3 years.
- BeFlatXIII 3y ago> The pocketable point-and-shoot cameras? Sure. The Olympus Tough series may be the last man standing in that category until Apple makes a shatterproof and diveproof iPhone.
- vGPU 3y agoI feel like that niche is primarily occupied by the GoPro as most people who put cameras in such extreme situations seem to enjoy posting videos over photos. For anything more than that you might as well get a dive case - the Tough’s water depth rating isn’t that deep and you can get a dive case for an iPhone that will give you 2-3x the depth.
- glitchcrab 3y agoThey aren't diveproof though. Even the entry level PADI Open Water qualification allows you to dive deeper than the Tough series is capable of. Past the 15m mark you need a housing, at which point you would be better off with an SLR in a housing.