Are mobile phone cameras better than cameras?
When mobile phones with built in cameras first started becoming available, most people saw it as nothing more than a novelty. Thanks to advances in technology, tiny cameras could now be fitted into the case of virtually any phone, whether it was a SIM free phone, or whether it was tied in to one of the providers.
Yes, those first cameras certainly did make it possible to take photos with your mobile phone but the quality left much to be desired and as a result, we had no real purpose of them. Admittedly, it was possible to include those photographs with messages we sent just as it was possible to download the photos onto a PC. However, because they were of such a low quality they were for the most part, useless, apart from providing us with the occasional laugh.
Even though the use of those early camera phones was so severely limited, we still became incredibly fond of them and for many they became the latest “must have” gadget to hit the market. Young people in particular became obsessed with this first camera phones simply because it allowed them to experience a whole new sense of freedom.
Of course, it was only a matter of time before these cameras with being built into virtually all phones and as a result the novelty inevitably began to wear off. As is to be expected, mobile phone manufacturers soon started looking for new ways in order to attract buyers, and so we saw the arrival of different colored phones as well as a range of sim free phones.
By this stage cameras in terms the developed to such an extent that people were now finding many interesting uses for them. If you saw something interesting on display, you no longer had to try and explain what it looked like over the phone that instead, you could simply take a photo and send it via a message. Likewise you could send holiday photos back to friends and family from the beach in some are off land.
Mobile phone camera had a commercial use as well. Estate agents could quickly circulate pictures of new properties, and motor dealers could use them to send pictures of car. Engineers could share problems or resolutions immediately via a photo message.
This meant that we wanted better and better cameras in our phones. Today it’s possible to get a phone which has an 8 mega pixel camera built into it – that’s as good as many of dedicated entry-level cameras on the market. So why buy two gadgets when one will do?
Of course, the mobile phone camera is still not going to be quite as good as the dedicated camera. Any photographer will tell you that the essential ingredient necessary for taking a high quality photo is the lens. Lenses in dedicated cameras are much larger than those in phone cameras, which means they are also better.
Composition is yet another key ingredient is as far as good quality photographs are concerned and of course this has more to do with the photographer than it does with the camera. Your intention with regards to the use of your photos is also of much importance. The reason for this being; while mobile phone cameras are perfectly suitable for taking snaps which you intend uploading to one of the many social networking websites, if you intend using your pictures for creating posters for example, then I’m afraid you’ll need a good quality dedicated camera.
In technical terms, dedicated cameras are still better than mobile phone cameras. But in terms of usefulness and accessibility the mobile phone camera has caught up, and most people no longer need to carry both. So whether you want looking for sim free mobile phones or pink mobile phones, make sure they come with a camera.
