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> As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are
by pdog 13y ago
> As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art.
What can we do to improve the default pictures taken with smartphone cameras? The picture you get with that tiny camera isn't very good, even now, though I think that Instagram is an improvement.
- dakrisht 13y agoNot sure how you think a <1MP highly filtered IG photo is better than a 8MP+ smartphone camera photo. It isn't. The "default" smartphone photos are leaps and bounds better than IG, the only thing that will "improve" them is higher res cameras, I'm sure the iPhone 5S will see an 18MP camera with better software. Just look at panorama - that's a serious achievement in smartphone cameras. Sharing photos is a different question/issue all together. 500px is a perfect example of an application that takes advantage of high-quality images, whether taken with a dSLR or not.