Camera phones have come a long way from the .3 megapixel phone I had a decade ago. When I bought my new phone I was excited because it was 13 megapixels. I thought great this thing has more megapixels than my camera and will therefore take better pictures.
Wrong.
Unfortunately the camera makers have lead those of us who do not know better to believe everything is about megapixels. To be honest most people will never need more than 8 megapixels.
What most beginners do not know, and I certainly did not, was the importance of shutter speed, ISO and aperture settings to deliver a good picture.
Sure if all you are going to do is take some pictures of your kids posing on a sunny beach, your camera phone will do a great job.
But if you want something more, the current slate of phones on the market will not be able to deliver.
If you look at the size of the lense on your phone, it is tiny compared to even a point and shoot camera. This limits the amount of light the phone lets in when it takes the picture. Light is even more important than megapixels. That is why when you are indoors or in a basketball gym your pictures come out dark and grainy.
You also have a small image processor in your phone. The desire to make phones smaller and smaller limits the size of the image processor causing image quality to suffer.
You factor in a lack of ability to control things like shutter speed and you will never be able to achieve professional quality pictures with your phone.
Don't get me wrong, I have taken some great picture with my camera phone. And the fact that I always have it with me has allowed me to take pictures I never would have before, even if they were not the best quality.
So don't ditch your camera phone just yet.
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