Do you think smartphones will eventually replace DSLR cameras?

Do you think smartphones will eventually replace DSLR cameras?

  • Yes

    Votes: 35 23.6%

  • No

    Votes: 113 76.4%
  • Total voters
    148
I invested a lot of money in DSLR (Canon). These days, however, I only use one of my bodies for Astrophotography. Haven't used my DSLR for any other serious stuff in the last 12 months.
 
I dare not say never so I will say perhaps some time in the near future, as history has shown us the unimaginable, with modern technology almost anything is possible.
 
DSlR-digital

These days it is possible as smartphone manufacturers equip phones with the top notch camera features like auto focus, flash and image stabilisation for high performance, so there is high expectations that cameras in some future can be replaced.
 
Cliffa said:
yes, no need to carry so many gadgets
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DSLRs were never meant to be carried around anyway. It's for people who are either into photography professionally, or use it with the intention of doing something specific.

I don't use mine for months at a time, but when i do then it's used for something that a phone or P&S can never do...
 
Cliffa said:
yes, no need to carry so many gadgets
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Explain how your phone camera takes a high quality ultra wide photo? Or a photo close up of a lion pride feeding in the KNP? Close up of performing jets at an air show?

As I said....

No
 
Of those who said yes, how many of you have used a DSLR with something other than the kit lens and a setting other than automatic?
 
backstreetboy said:
True. Many brand whores out there.
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Not really - it's got more to do with vendor lock-in than anything else. Selling all your gear, and taking a massive hit on it, to buy into a new system isn't practical for many.

For me mirrorless isn't a viable replacement for my dslrs yet, they're just not up to the task. I'd love to see that change.
 
Never. DSLR's are complicated professional artistic devices. Professional training & DSLR & talent can never be replaced, only maybe improved, for profesionally trained photographers.
 
bwana said:
Not really - it's got more to do with vendor lock-in than anything else. Selling all your gear, and taking a massive hit on it, to buy into a new system isn't practical for many.

For me mirrorless isn't a viable replacement for my dslrs yet, they're just not up to the task. I'd love to see that change.
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This.
One could argue that phones or mirrorless are replacing point and shoot cameras, sure, but DSLR? That's a laugh. I want to see someone carrying a phone with optics to rival a DSLR. No doubt some DSLR users are using their cameras less, but they're certainly not serious photographers. For mirrorless users, there's a segment who get what they want from a mirrorless, that's all. No doubt the pool of DSLR users is probably relatively smaller than it could be because of these changes.

It's a bit like saying DSLR cameras are replacing high end video cameras because they shoot video, but we all know that's not true.
 
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adrianereynek said:
Never. DSLR's are complicated professional artistic devices. Professional training & DSLR & talent can never be replaced, only maybe improved, for profesionally trained photographers.
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True. They are old school. Mirrorless comes with electronic viewfinder you can see the picture in real-time before you actually take it and a myriad other improvements.
 
Eventually but by that time something will have replaced the dslr
 
backstreetboy said:
True. They are old school. Mirrorless comes with electronic viewfinder you can see the picture in real-time before you actually take it and a myriad other improvements.
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Please tell me you're trolling :crylaugh:

DSLRs will have built in phones before phones replace DSLRs.
 
backstreetboy said:
True. They are old school. Mirrorless comes with electronic viewfinder you can see the picture in real-time before you actually take it and a myriad other differences.
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EVFs are just not on par with an optical view finder in all but the most basic uses. That will probably change in the future, but I think that future is still quite a way off.
 
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