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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 216874" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>Having long ago been very much into photography, the thing that rekindled my long-latent passion for it was getting a smartphone, and seeing what I could do with it, by way of taking pictures, and editing them with the various apps I could easily and cheaply download and run right on this same phone.</p><p></p><p> But I found the overall quality of the images lacking, compared to what I used to take with my ancient F2.</p><p></p><p> So, I got me a modern DSLR,and now I can take pictures that are as good as my F2 took, while enjoying much of the advantages of doing so digitally. I can even use the old lenses I have for my F2 (though the manual for my D3200 claims that I cannot). But with my D3200, I miss some of the flexibility that I have with my smartphone. I'm pretty much limited to what in-camera editing is stock with the D3200, before I transfer the pictures to my computer and use Photoshop and other software to further process them. With the WU-1a, I can transfer images from my D3200 to my smartphone, and use the software I have there which, for the most part, is both superior and more affordable than what is I have for my computers; but my smartphone, alas, is rather too anemic in term of memory and processing power to really work very usefully with full-sized 24-megapixels images from my DSLR.</p><p></p><p> I think that what the industry really needs to do is to come out with lines of DSLRs that run Android, and can download and run all the various image-processing apps that are available for this platform. They need to have plenty of memory, and a really good CPU, to be able to work well with images that are much, much bigger than a smartphone produces.</p><p></p><p> The quality of a good DSLR, versus the ease and flexibility of an Android smartphone—it seems that consumers, in droves, are choosing the latter. I don't see any good reason why an Android-based DSLR can't be made, that will give us the best advantages of both.</p><p></p><p> I can somewhat relate to what Mr. Hongo said…</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"Taking photos with smartphones and editing them with apps is like cooking with cheap ingredients and a lot of artificial flavoring,"</em> says Canon spokesman Takafumi Hongo. <em>"Using interchangeable cameras is like slow food cooked with natural, genuine ingredients.''</em></p><p></p><p>…but sometimes I like what I can do with <em>“a lot of artificial flavoring”</em> that I cannot do any other way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 216874, member: 16749"] Having long ago been very much into photography, the thing that rekindled my long-latent passion for it was getting a smartphone, and seeing what I could do with it, by way of taking pictures, and editing them with the various apps I could easily and cheaply download and run right on this same phone. But I found the overall quality of the images lacking, compared to what I used to take with my ancient F2. So, I got me a modern DSLR,and now I can take pictures that are as good as my F2 took, while enjoying much of the advantages of doing so digitally. I can even use the old lenses I have for my F2 (though the manual for my D3200 claims that I cannot). But with my D3200, I miss some of the flexibility that I have with my smartphone. I'm pretty much limited to what in-camera editing is stock with the D3200, before I transfer the pictures to my computer and use Photoshop and other software to further process them. With the WU-1a, I can transfer images from my D3200 to my smartphone, and use the software I have there which, for the most part, is both superior and more affordable than what is I have for my computers; but my smartphone, alas, is rather too anemic in term of memory and processing power to really work very usefully with full-sized 24-megapixels images from my DSLR. I think that what the industry really needs to do is to come out with lines of DSLRs that run Android, and can download and run all the various image-processing apps that are available for this platform. They need to have plenty of memory, and a really good CPU, to be able to work well with images that are much, much bigger than a smartphone produces. The quality of a good DSLR, versus the ease and flexibility of an Android smartphone—it seems that consumers, in droves, are choosing the latter. I don't see any good reason why an Android-based DSLR can't be made, that will give us the best advantages of both. I can somewhat relate to what Mr. Hongo said… [indent][i]"Taking photos with smartphones and editing them with apps is like cooking with cheap ingredients and a lot of artificial flavoring,"[/i] says Canon spokesman Takafumi Hongo. [i]"Using interchangeable cameras is like slow food cooked with natural, genuine ingredients.''[/i][/indent] …but sometimes I like what I can do with [i]“a lot of artificial flavoring”[/i] that I cannot do any other way. [/QUOTE]
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