It’s 2018, and You
can take a photo with almost any device. The TIME’s magazine cover photo has been
shot using iPhone, any modern smartphone can
produce an image with better quality than a few
years old professional DSLR. Should You
still consider buying DSLR/Mirrorless camera to capture Your holiday and
family ? Can You recognize which of the photos bellow was taken with a pro camera, and which with an Iphone ?
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Let’s have a look at the price - a modern smartphone with a “top
level” camera costs about 3000 PLN ! A Huge
amount of money for a phone, right ?
Please consider that this device also has a great camera, which produces
amazing photos without any postprocessing ( auto-HDR is an awesome feature ), and
their quality is good enough for
printing standard 10x15 cm prints for your album. For this price You can also
record 4K video, create a time-lapse
without any effort, and share it with all Your family and friends. This
device weights probably about 200g, and You always
have it in Your pocket.
On the other hand, You can buy “an advanced” DSLR or mirrorless camera – prices
start from …2000 PLN. You might think it will be cheaper than a smartphone, but think about one universal lens for
all-around shooting – next 1000 PLN expense. Your equipment already weighs 1kg. Add a
bag to it – You are carrying 1.5kg. Oh, You have a bag ?
Unfortunately You will have to pay for extra luggage when flying
low-cost airlines. Be aware that this camera won’t produce outstanding pictures
without further postprocessing – and software also costs.
It’s interesting how photography evolved
and how good results can be achieved without “professional” gear. If You are
keen on photography or you treat it more seriously, You will probably still choose
DSLR/mirrorless, but I think that smartphones will slowly replace the market of cheap and amateur cameras.
Questions:
- What is Your choice for holiday photography ? Did You invest in the “professional” gear or Your are satisfied with the results of Your smartphone ?
- Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
- Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
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For holiday photography I choose action camera and smartphone this is the set I'm satisfied with.
Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Yes, I can recognize most of the pictures taken with a smartphone because they are most of the time in lower resolution and in much worse quality than those professional ones.
Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
I prefer to watch photographs on the TV screen or at least on the PC screen. On a larger screen, it is easier to perceive more details.
My choice for holiday photography is my smartphone. I've never been a big fan of photography, but when I was in Japan I was shocked how great photos this device does. It was the first time I made some more creative photos with many details and they look amazing(instagram.com/dams_k7 :D).
2. Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Yes, in many cases I can recognize it. It would be harder with some of the newest smartphones, because their cameras are incredible too.
3. Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
Usually I watch them on my smartphone, but sometimes I do it on my laptop too. To be honest - photos are still lookin great on bigger screen ;).
I invested in my new iPhone =D I find it easier to take a 200 gram always than 2 kilograms but rare.
2.Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Professional photographers will see the difference. But ordinary people, especially if the photo is processed in photoshop and Lightroom will be difficult to distinguish. And social networks greatly reduce the quality of photos.
3.Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
I look at all my devices, especially if I want to upload a photo to social networks to look at the quality.
It has some nice features like video stabilization and it's small but it is not making better pictures then my phone.
Sometimes it's visible when a video or picture was done by a phone camera but in most situations it's really hard to see because you don't often make long view shots or something like that and you don't look for smallest details. Another thing that image can be in bad quality and it doesn't help either.
I watch many youtubers that make professional photos or videos in high quality. I follow few guys on instagram that does photography professionaly and few of them are even from Poland. Love to see some beautiful shoots in the morning. It gives you feeling in how beautiful world you are living in.
I am not a professional photographer and I am not so good at postprocessing that’s why my choice will stay for smartphone camera. As you’ve said nowadays smartphones make so good shots that it’s really hard to distinguish whether it was made with professional gear or brand new iphone.
2. Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Generally yes, because most of people using Instagram/Facebook have no idea(as well as I) about postprocessing and the pros use it quite often that’s why in this particular moment it’s not hard to recognize them.
3.Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
Once a year while cleaning all garbage on my computer I look through the pictures on TV but mostly mobile devices.
For me both pictures presented in the article are equally good. They are a little bit different, but I cannot say which is “worse”. However I am not interested in photography, so maybe I am not able to recognize good photo.
I usually watch my photos on PC or on phone. My current smartphone have so high resolution camera that I cannot see any defects or pixels even on PC screen.
I guess that Instagram or Facebook downgrade a bit quality of uploaded photos, so in this case it would be indeed hard to tell. So again, we come to the conclusion that a good smartphone is enough for taking photos nowadays.
2. I think that I can tell a difference between picture taken with a smartphone and one taken with e.g.: DSLR camera. Pictures taken with smartphones have lower quality and are often dark, additionally colors are not so vibrant compared to pictures taken with professional camera.
3. I usually browse my photos on my smartphone, but when I want to show them to other people I use TV for displaying them.
I can't recognize. The photos from the phones are amazing now and from year to year are better.
Rather only on mobile devices.
It depends on the photo and the person that made the picture. The professional photographer can take the picture using the smartphone camera so good, that we will think the professional gear was used. Sometimes it's hard to recognize what equipment was used.
I hardly never used my tv to watch photos. I usually use a smartphone or laptop to do so. It's much more comfortable...
Sometimes it is easy to spot the difference, sometimes it is not. It depends on how many filters were used on the photo :)
I use my smartphone mostly to watch photos. Sometimes I use my PC. Sometimes, my family use TV to watch photos from vacations.
2. No. The one you have provided is hard to determine. The easiest ones probably are done by GoPro and other wide lenses cameras. It is not so common in phone market yet
3. I do it on both smartphones and PC. Depending from the situation
No, it’s hard for me. Nowadays smartphone cameras takes photo in great resolution and I have 1366x768 on my laptop and 1280×720 on my smartphone and I can’t see the difference between professional camera shots and smartphone shots on my devices. Yes, I’m using Instagram and almost all photos looks good on my devices.
More often I use smartphone to watch photos than PC. I use PC for watching photos when I need to check some documents or when I want change wallpapers on desktop.
Yes I can, I can see the difference between photo made on phone and photo made on camera. Resolution of the last one is much better then first one. To start.
I can watch photos on whatever device I want to, it basically depends on situation.
Returning to the subject usually I watch photos by using my phone and I couldn't recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone because I don't really care. If photo is good, it doesn't matter.
I'm not a professional and I don't take too much care to details. If the photo simply looks good then it doesn't matter what it was taken with. Anyway, it's obvious that you can take bad pictures with good DSLR and awesome video with a smartphone. Social media compress the stuff enough much that it's not easy to say what the photo was taken with.
I watch my photos mainly on a smartphone or laptop. Sometimes when I want to show let's say my holiday to my friends then I put on the tv. I don't print photos too often.
I can not distinguish it, especially when all people are processing pictures and adding many things to them.
Sometimes I see a picture in a family album when they are, for example, holidays and we remember certain periods
Pc the most, most often when I rip photos from the phone, and then review them. I also do not always use a smartphone or tablet.
Most of the time I don't really pay attention to the quality of the photo because on social media people use all kind of "heavy" photo editing starting from filters and color correction so I don't even bother myself with this question.
Usually on mobile devices but sometimes on laptop and TV too.
My phone don't have very good camera so I always have to take my photo camera with me. It is not very "professional" but it takes better photos than my phone.
2. Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
No, I can't recognize it in most of a cases especially when a lot of filters where added.
3. Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
I prefere watching them on PC cause the screen is bigger and you can really see the details. I don't watch them on mobile phone or tablet.
I think that I could see only photos that were made by professional.
Yes. It happens that I can review old photos, they are stored on the computer. Or watch a photo on your computer that was only made because of the resolution on the monitor better. And I love printing photos because you can view them without a computer. On the phone, I usually look at photos from social networks.
Nowadays it’s difficult to distinguish such pictures and I can’t say that. As I have already mentioned I am not professional in this kind of technology.
I watch photographs only on my mobile devices. Sometimes I can watch something on my computer but it has to be very unique situation.
I like the smartphone photos. I have a professional camera with two lenses. However, I am not a professional photographer, and I don't see many differences between smartphone and camera photos. The smartphone is still close, it is charged, it's small. The camera is vast; it's not flexibility for all activities, e.g. powerboat advantage.
Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
No, I am not an expert. However, sometimes photos are very unnatural, especially with colour balance, temperature. I see a lot of new software with AI technology supports smartphone's users to correct pictures professionally. I think we will have more problems to recognise if the picture is a fake.
Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets?
Yes. We more often use digital pictures than paper. It's a reason why we change the platform.
2. Yes. Mostly because of the resolution they were taken in.
3. The pictures that I took I watch only on the device I took them with, which is my smartphone. Photographs taken by others I watch mostly via social media which is either on PC or my smartphone.
I'm not an eagle-eye person, who knows a lot about photography. Unfortunately, i think that i will not discern differencies if 2 photos will have a good quality. What about instagram or facebook, all the social medias are spoiling quality of photos.
If i want to share pictures with my parents, ofc i will show them on a big screen so they can feel the atmosphere, but it happens seldom.
The currently present smartphones have cameras which should fully satisfy an amateur. In my opinion the gear starts to matter when there are bigger resolution photos needed, so that they are not pixeled out. But for everyday use I, personally, do not need an advanced camera.
2.Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Thanks to the amount of filters and various programs allowing us to adjust the quality and overall final effect it is hard for an inexperienced person to recognize which picture is taken with what. From what I know, there are some lens that allow the photographers to take photos which are brighter than human eyes can see, perhaps such photos could be easier to recognize, but how would I know if I cannot see that bright :)
3.Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
It really depends. Most of the times I scroll through social media on my phone, but from time to time, while browsing internet on the PC I get to watch them in higher resolutions.
In my opinion left picture is taken by an iPhone. Because it looks more colorful. And it seems to me that they use some hidden filters for that purpose.
I don't remember the last time when I was watching my photos on a laptop. I guess it was about half year ago when I returned from Zakopane.
Sometimes smartphones have a problem with taking photos with poor lighting, have problems with image stabilization.
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Most of them recognize them
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I prefer to view photos on a large format such as a TV set. What a pleasure to watch holiday pictures on a small screen? :).
I always use mobile devices to watch photographs because my old TV doesn't have Bluetooth to wireless connection so I have to use a lot of cables. It irritates me so phone is only option.
My choice is a smartphone. For general social user like me this is enough :)
Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Since I am not a photographer therefore scarcely I'll can recognize where is the best camera phone (smartphone) or where is the pro camera.
Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
Generally, I watch photos on PC and mobile devices.
Yes it is often visible how was this picture taken and what kind of retouch was applied on it.Also the resolution is quite different even though nowadays there are great cameras on the newest phones.
I watch them everywhere, usually on the laptop or just to show or just to edit.
Mostly, I can't recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone or professional camera because the difference is becoming less noticeable. Modern smartphones can compete with professional cameras, no doubts.
Honestly, nowadays only on smartphone or sometimes laptop. It's easier to watch and share photos via mobile devices.
Photos on social media aren’t in very high resolution, so you are not able to recognize which picture/video was taken with smartphone. Even videos taken in 4k during perfect weather is hard to recognize.
As I’m using smartphone to take photos, I generally watching it on my phone, but I like to print my favorite one and make an album.
No, unfortunately I can't recognize which photos were taken using a smartphone and which using professional photographic equipment.
I only view photos on mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.
- I do not invest in any "professional" gear while taking a photo, I just use my smartphone. I do not need a better equipment because I do not leave my basement even on holidays, so I think that my old iPhone is enough to take a photo of my pizza which I ordered for dinner.
2) Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook?
- No, because most of the photos on Instagram or Facebook are just some "selfies" done in the bathroom with poor light. Of course, sometimes you can find a picture of someone's holidays where you can easily figure about what kind of equipment was used to take a photo.
3) Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets?
- I only watch photographs on my PC and from time to time on my smartphone while browsing reddit.
I do not give any value to what was photo shot with as long as the photo itself is good, whats more with amount of a viable addons like special cases with attachable lenses make it harder and harder to distinguish the device the photo was took with.
If i browse any photos i usually use my PC for that.
My choice is smartphone's camera, I'm satisfied with quality of photos taken by good smartphone camera.
2. Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Sometimes I can recognize that photo was taken by professional camera, but only sometimes.
3. Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
It depends. Social media like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram I browse on my smartphone, but photos from holidays I like watch on bigger screens like notebook or TV.
Today it is very difficult to recognize what was taken of the photo, on a professional camera or smartphone. On a smartphone, of course, you can also make great pictures that are difficult to distinguish from professional ones. Especially with the use of filters and various photo manipulations it will be even more difficult.
In my opinion, the quality of the photo, its content and other aspects depend more on the photographer himself, I was convinced of this many times.
In my opinion it's hard to tell the difference between photos taken with a dslr or a smartphone when browsing social media. All social media have some kind of compression which complicates things. Also a good post production can really improve photo quality so that it's easy confuse the smartphone with an camera.
When it comes to movies I can spot the difference right away but with photos it much harder.
Most often I watch photos on my mobile phone because I use instagram and facebook. When you follow the right people you can admire their amazing photos and even get inspired.
2. For now it is really hard to recognise a difference between photos taken with a smartphone and normal cameras.
3. I use TV screen for watching Netflix or playing games but mostly I use my smartphone or a notebook.
Yes, very often it is not clear on which machine the photo was taken. But I definitely see when professional equipment was used for photography. Whatever magic our phones are capable of, it’s impossible to get the full range of possibilities, which gives us professional equipment.
2. I don't think so. I am not really thinking about this when I am browsing Facebook. I have to admit that I don't know much about photography.
3. Usually I use my smartphone and PC. Rarely tablet.
I think it is very hard to recognize with which device was the photo taken, especially when most of the photos is taken by smartphones.
I mostly watch photos on my smartphone but sometimes in my home I watch holiday's photos on big TV.
It depends on my holiday way, To take my professional camera or not and my smartphone exactly with me I'm satisfied with my smartphone camera but I'm not satisfied with my smartphone memory.
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Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook ?
Actually, sometimes because you know a lot of programs can convert pictures taken by smartphone camera like taken by a professional camera.
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Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
I prefer to watch photographs on a larger screen such as a PC for extra details if I want and else if the photographs don't important just any screen.
My daily and holiday choice for photography is a smartphone camera, as I'm not interested in professional photography whatsoever. I also have never invested in the professional gear.
Can You recognize which picture was taken with a smartphone when You browse social media like Instagram or Facebook?
Unfortunately, I feel like I can not. I don't know a lot about techniques nor photography itself, I mainly focus on what is in the picture - not how it was made.
Do You watch photographs on PC/TV/prints, or only on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets ?
I tend to watch photography on PC, specially UI projects put on Dribbble, but to be honest I don't recall nothing else. I use PC only to work.
It's a very difficult task and I think that I'm not able to recognize all the pictures, but when I see a selfie I'm almost 100% sure that this picutre was taken with a smartphone.
I mostly watch photographs on mobile devices but I print photos that are more important to me.
2. Yup, resolution is visable. But start with Fb and insta, those services are loosing some of the quality of your photos, so bad pics made phone are even uglier.
3. Both. Of course when I'm in travel I'm using phone, but in home using a good screen and PC is much better, we can finally see a picture made by camera at it's best :)
Your second question is very interesting — usually yes. DSLR camera lenses create professional depth-of-field effects that are just not reproducible with smartphone cameras. But do I care when I see an Instagram photo taken with a smartphone camera? Not at all.
The biggest screen that I watch my photos on is my 27” external monitor attached to my computer. Usually, the difference between a DSLR photo and an iPhone photo is clearly visible on such a big screen.