{"id":10196,"date":"2017-12-02T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2017-12-02T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:15:45","slug":"and-then-there-was-the-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-then-there-was-the-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"and then there was the smartphone…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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comparing light for
iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone X
telephoto lens<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. When I first bought a Sony F-828<\/a> camera at the end of its production and marketing, I bought my wife a thin, pocket sized Sony point and shoot T7<\/a> with a 3:1 Zeiss zoom lens and a 3.3 megapixel sensor. The F-828 had an 8 megapixel sensor and a beautiful Zeiss zoom lens. The camera was massive and heavy. Both took jpeg files and used different batteries and chargers.<\/p>\n

The recently announced Apple smartphones<\/a>\u00a0(caution: the linked \u00a0 Macworld site has a ton of annoying ads) have a higher pixel rating, two lenses and stabilizing circuitry, plus automatic colour balance, exposure, aperture and speed settings. The camera in the iPhone X<\/a> is 12 megapixel – twice the size of my decade-plus old F-828 and nearly 4x that in my wife’s T7, The two lenses are about equivalent to a 28mm and 56mm camera lens.<\/p>\n

The clever aspect is this: The wide-angle has a larger aperture so if the light is dim and the telephoto is selected, the camera uses a cropped version of an image<\/a> taken with the wide-angle lens instead!<\/p>\n

And anyone who owns a smartphone usually has it with him, ready to snap a family or even a news-worthy photo. So the question is, with smartphones, “who needs a camera today”?<\/p>\n

You can learn more on family photos by hearing our December speaker,\u00a0Dr Jennifer Orpana of the ROM<\/a>\u00a0who will speak on Family Photo Archives!<\/em><\/p>\n

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