More ISO Options
Even though you can take good photos with your smart phone, it may be difficult exposing the images properly during low-light conditions. The best way to go about lighting control is by setting up the ISO, as phones normally don’t have the capability of ISO.
Considering my X-T1 Fujifilm camera, for instance, I can raise the ISO unit until it reaches 12,800. And at that time even with a second hand Nikon bridge camera I could push the ISO up to 25,600. All things considered, shooting my camera rarely runs to above 1,000, but the wide range is useful for appropriate light settings.
You can manually change the smartphone’s brightness but the cameras don’t have the option to vary ISO. For this reason, skillful photographers who love to have more control over their pictures will still choose DSLRs or mirrorless devices.
Larger Sensors
Smartphones companies always emphasize the number of megapixels their camera can shoot in and oftentimes larger numbers are used to market the product. As more and more reasons come in explaining the role of megapixels in superior photos, they cannot be taken for granted as much. A bigger sensor in the camera will sway picture quality more to the positive than ever before.
The cameras have locations where the light bounces back and produces an image. DSLR sensors are very obvious as they can always be seen directly on the camera body when you remove the lens. The first thing you’ll note is that the sensor is generally bigger than what is usually offered by mobile phone makers.
The camera sensors provide more light in the Pictures, by virtue of which better quality pictures are taken. Among the mentioned challenges is the necessity to enlarge the sensor size of smartphone cameras to achieve the level of DSLRs’ performance, which indeed will be a challenging task due to the constraints of camera device size and free area.
These sensors are quite different in terms of digital cameras types. Knowing this will guide you to choosing even a better camera if that is the direction that you would like to take.
Better Control Over White Balance
One of the most common fruits of smartphones that I do not like is that you do not have the control over the white balance of the camera like you do on a DSLR. If you need to be reminded of white balance—the principle of your image being green or red tint— see our white balance guide. Whites that you should have actually appear in your images white such as paper are the ones of which your targets.
By means of choosing a Kelvin number on a DSLR camera, the white balance can be successfully correct. Firstly, you can also choose from different presets like for instance cloudy and daylight. Many smartphone cameras do not even provide bokeh, so you are left with no other choice but to literally count on your phone to hopefully get the perfect shot.
For well doing the white balance in your phone photos, you need to make use of the editing software like Adobe Lightroom. You can even reshape the softness in your native photo editing app as soon as you have captured the picture. However, the white balance of the photo can often be automatically set which will normally produce better photographs.
More ShootingModes
Currently, smartphone cameras give a widened range of pre ared filters, check out all the various iPhone camera filters. Besides, they also call attention to a broader variety of shooting modes. However, mobile phones overtake cameras as a device for videoing rather than snapping.
When I employ the customary camera that I own, I may shoot in Auto, Manual, Shutter Priority, and Aperture Priority modes, which makes the photography process more interesting and dynamic. I have the opportunity to experiment now and have broader possibilities so that my photos are not as one-sided as they were before.
If there were an internet connection for more functional modes on smartphone cameras, it would be easier for people to capture high quality photos, but without large investments in cameras.
Better Shutter Speed Control
Shutter speed is one of the most important settings in photography, and more often than not it is what holds or stops the motion in our images. But while there is a way to adjust the aperture setting on some camera phone brands, usually there is no option to alter the shutter speed manually. The one profound exception being when you have the ability to choose the length of the timer for long exposures during low light situations.
Because they don’t have much power over the shutter speed, it might be harder to get better pictures to those conditions where the adjustment of the shutter speed might be decided. As an illustration, you may would a slow exposure when taking pictures of sports.
Further, if this feature is not brought to smartphone cameras, then the opportunity of them to outdo DSLRs is very low.
Better Zoom Image Quality
If I had the opportunity to point out only one of the shortcomings of the smartphone photos, then I would definitely choose the image quality of a zoom. I find iPhone’s picture quality worsens by 1.5x (and the closer I’ll come to and then pass the 2x mark, the worse it will be). The reason lies with the smartphone, for it doesn’t have a zoom lens that is variable.
While this is the case, on the contrary side, the quality of the image with my 16-80mm lens on the Fujifilm camera is still great when I zoom in at 80 mm. Certainly, I cannot imagine myself using a smartphone for zoom pictures (unless I forget to put the main camera with me).
Leave no doubt that most of today’s phone cameras do take decent enough wide-angle photos. However, sometimes we can’t draw nearer to the object we want to shoot and then zoom in. It’s a nice idea to crop without ruining the detailed part of the picture. We still lose some quality when cropping but the picture does not look good as they do on my DSLR.
More Options for Shooting in RAW
Converting RAW files to JPEG may be alright in some situations but options with RAW files are much wider than with JPEG ones. The number of smartphones that offer RAW shooting is obviously much bigger than it used to be, but it’s still pretty rare to find a phone with this function.
While almost all DSLR cameras capture photos as RAW files, so you have more details to play with if you plan on post-processing the image. Therefore, it is true that there is some situation in which the JPEG format is preferable to the RAW, but the purchase of a DSLR is unlikely to be dependent on it.
For a DSLR amateur, smartphone cameras cannot match up to where a DSLR would make the difference. The drop of image quality at zooming, space for customization controls and smaller sensors are the reasons as to why using purpose-built cameras once in a while is necessary. Whether smartphones producers can compete with DSLRs is possible by various factors including, dealing with the small size of their devices and no involvement in this area.
