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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dramtastic" data-source="post: 241351" data-attributes="member: 16805"><p>I've gone the opposite way. Although I'm talking compact camera(Lumix) not smartphone, it was after a wildlife trip in Bolivia last year that I decided to upgrade to a DSLR. Don't get met wrong, the Lumix produces some good even excellent results. But after owning a D7000 and a couple of decent lenses the shortcomings of the Lumix have been highlighted. Moving objects especially birds are problematic, sure there is a massive zoom range but also a huge drop in quality at those ranges, and the sensor cannot resolve the same detail as my DSLR. As for smartphone photo's that's what they are, photo's. Users are not photographers. Taking a selfie with a smartphone while hanging out at the mall with a couple of friends is not photography. It's the equivalent of jumping into one of those photo booths and pulling funny faces with your mates. While we were in Osaka over the last week our friends took most of their shots with a Samsung smartphone even though they also have a Lumix. Basically it's point and shoot. No thought to composing the shot, why would you, you don't learn about photography and then buy a smartphone if your an enthusiast. Many of the simple images were perfectly acceptable for what they were. However, when we went to the Osaka aquarium where the conditions become tricky, that smartphone mostly failed as an image producing device. Out of all the shots taken with the smartphone only 2 were of good quality. The D7000 with Siggy 18-35 1.8 produced many excellent images in difficult conditions. Now many folk would have been happy with even the lesser quality images taken with the smartphone, happy snaps and memories to show where you were. Once I'd shown mine to our friends, I ended up emailing those shots to those guys because they recognized to big jump in quality. I can perfectly understand people who just want memories shots moving from a camera to a smartphone, it will  produce all they have ever wanted or needed in a convenient package. Photographers however, will always want the best equipment they can afford, size and weight be damned if needs be.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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