Photography cameras vs. Smartphone cameras

At this time of year many people enjoy a well deserved vacation. Whether on the beach or in the countryside, they often want to record some memories through photos, to later remember. An issue often raised is the difference between traditional photography cameras and cameras that are included in smartphones. Is it worth buying a photography camera or your smartphone is enough to record the best moments of your vacation? In this article we will examine this subject.

Digital Cameras

The transition from traditional cameras to digital cameras was the end of an era. An era where photography was not within everyone's reach, and its total cost was significant. Besides the photography camera itself, there was the need to buy the rolls and make their revelation. Because of the cost involved it was not habitual to take a great number of photos during vacations. With each photograph the user tried to make it unique, and thought beforehand.

The emergence of digital cameras has changed the paradigm of photography. There was no longer any need for rolls and revelations, since the photos would now all go to a memory card, the capacity of which quickly became too large to be exceeded easily. Thus, the volume of photos taken became much larger and the cost of both the photography camera and the production of photographs went down a lot. The quality of the photos themselves has generally improved for most users. Digital machines have come up with a number of mechanisms to compensate for photographs that, on a roll machine, could get worse due to the surrounding conditions or little technical knowledge of the user.

Smartphone Cameras

The widespread use of mobile phones has led brands to invest heavily in research, increasingly improving their models. This is how smartphones that already do much more than just calls and send / receive text messages have emerged. One of the features that saw an improvement progress in smartphones was precisely the functionality of the camera. Nowadays, it is possible to find models that offer cameras with a few dozen megapixels, and lenses from leading manufacturers in the market like Carl Zeiss.

Advantages / disadvantages of each solution

The fact that everyone owns a smartphone and therefore already has a camera always with you, makes you wonder if it's worth buying a separate device just to take pictures. In fact, the answer to this question is not easy, it depends on the user and the type of photos you want to take.

For most photos, in ideal conditions, that is, with good light, landscapes or portraits, typically the cameras included in recent smartphones achieve results similar to a mid-range digital camera. So, in this sense the purchase of a camera may not add much to the quality of your photographs.

On the other hand for more specific types of photo, the quality of a smartphone camera can decay a lot when compared to a digital camera. There is a big limitation on the lenses of smartphone cameras. Due to space limitations, they can not be too large or too deep. Thus, photos with poor light conditions are an example of the type of photos that may look quite different when taken with a digital camera. For the same reasons zooming in on smartphone cameras is also very limited.

In short, if you plan to take photos with more specific characteristics, such as in low light or with some zoom, the digital camera remains the best option for achieving a good final result. On the other hand, if the type of photos you want to take out will not have any particular particularity, then choosing a good smartphone for photographs may be the best solution.

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