Top smartphone cameras ranked

[bwana]

On the other end of the scale are actual photographers (amateur and pro) who usually always have much better tools for the job on hand anyway. Sure, there may be certain use cases where something as small as a smartphone may come in handy, but no-one is replacing their Canon with interchangeable lenses with a Huawei just because it has a higher pixel count, or is the top of some list.

I don't know many (any?) professional photographers who always have something like a dslr or mirrorless on hand if they're not working - but they do always have their phone. So while it's not replacing traditional photographic gear, it is augmenting it.

 

[superskully]

My biggest qualm with Samsung is how tightly they lock up their APIs, you are contained within their ecosystem, so you can't use apps like Filmic (which is unusable on most devices) or mcpro24 to maximise the device's potential. These aren't photo apps, but damn, those devs know what they are doing with their apps.

Everything Samsung i have owned (top of the range phones from S4-S7 to Note 10.1) all end up dead in my cupboard somewhere usually before 2 years. Buds lasted just over a year before 1 of them died.
My current A31 is utter crap.
Yet my Xiaomi A2 and Iphone 5s and Ipad pro and Huawei P10 lite (> 4 years min) are still working perfectly.
Last Samsung product i will buy.
Their TVs are awesome though and last long

 

[genetic]

I don't know many (any?) professional photographers who always have something like a dslr or mirrorless on hand if they're not working - but they do always have their phone. So while it's not replacing traditional photographic gear, it is augmenting it.

Exactly. I've been in a pinch a few times without professional gear. I once was covering a rally in Botswana, and there was a crash right in front of me. I was operating a remote camera, but took out my phone and got footage of the accident which was used in the broadcast.

Sometimes the best camera is the one you have on you.

 

[The Voice]

Exactly. I've been in a pinch a few times without professional gear. I once was covering a rally in Botswana, and there was a crash right in front of me. I was operating a remote camera, but took out my phone and got footage of the accident which was used in the broadcast.

Sometimes the best camera is the one you have on you.

Yeah the old adage “it’s the photographer that matters, not the gear” is quite accurate. Question though: if you were covering a sporting event, why did you only have one camera? Didn’t you have any additional bodies for redundancy, etc?

 

[genetic]

if you were covering a sporting event, why did you only have one camera? Didn’t you have any additional bodies for redundancy, etc?

Location of the accident. I was right there. The course was a couple of KM long, so it wasn't feasible to have a camera on every corner.

I was operating a remote controlled camera attached to a drone. So the only thing I had was my phone. Also I kept my phone horizontal. The way videos were meant to be shot!

 

[bwana]

Also I kept my phone horizontal. The way videos were meant to be shot!

amen brother.

Exactly. I've been in a pinch a few times without professional gear. I once was covering a rally in Botswana, and there was a crash right in front of me. I was operating a remote camera, but took out my phone and got footage of the accident which was used in the broadcast.

Sometimes the best camera is the one you have on you.

If I needed to shoot video in a hurry I'd have to use my phone.