First of all, I want to ask myself the following questions.
1. Can the mobile phone meet your current photo needs?
Would you like to learn photography in order to take better photos?
Can you accept that the photos taken directly from the camera are not more pleasing to the eye than those taken directly from the mobile phone?
4. Would you like to learn later professional knowledge in order to take better photos?
Do you have enough time and money to practice photography?
6. Is buying a camera a long-term idea or a hot-headed behavior?
I believe many people have had similar experiences with me. I watched others eat turkey noodles online, and I felt delicious, so I bought it. As a result, I didn't think it was delicious, but it was so spicy that I cried ... So, will you be eager to buy a camera because all your friends around you have cameras? I guessed right! Many people buy cameras only because of their inner impulse, but they have never decided whether to learn photography or not.
With the development of technology, ordinary people can take photos that look "not bad" with their mobile phones without any training. This is because mobile phone manufacturers have systematically optimized the camera software and even added beauty functions. Behind a seemingly simple photo is the result of complex algorithm calculation. However, most of the photos taken by the camera (the camera has now added the automatic mito function) are to restore the scenes that people see. To get a beautiful picture, we need not only careful composition and clever lighting, but also strong post-adjustment. The photos taken directly by novice cameras are often not as good as those taken by mobile phones, and many people just lose interest in photography at this point.
Photography is a technical job.
Everyone has a necessary process on the road of photography-continuous shooting, continuous practice and long-term accumulation. Photography is a technical activity, which needs a lot of practice, summary and improvement. This will never be finished soon. Without perseverance and patience, it is difficult to succeed. It takes more time, energy and money to choose a camera than to choose a mobile phone, even if it is just to take pictures of life as a souvenir. But the fun of taking pictures with a camera is by no means comparable to that of a mobile phone.
If you just take photos for the convenience of making friends, please use your mobile phone; If you are only taking photos for a few years of travel, please buy a mobile phone with higher imaging quality; If you can take learning photography as a pleasure, you can get a full sense of accomplishment by looking at carefully adjusted photos. You are not afraid to go up and down the tree, not afraid of the wind and the sun, and practice hard for decades. If you really want to take photography as a pleasure in life, please buy a camera immediately!
So, let's take a look at the advantages of cameras over mobile phones.
1.？ As the saying goes, the bottom layer presses people. Please see the figure below, the CMOS gap of different devices.
The CMOS size of a full-frame camera is more than 68 times that of an ordinary mobile phone!
In terms of hardware, the mobile phone has been completely lost. At the same level of photography, there is no reason why the photos taken by the camera are worse than those taken by the mobile phone. Especially in the later stage, the finer the picture, the higher the tolerance, while the photos taken by mobile phones are often insufficient in the later stage.
2. Advantages of 2.RAW format
RAW image is the original data that the image sensor converts the captured light source signal into digital signal. RAW is an unprocessed and compressed format, while common pictures in JPG format store a single raster image with 24-bit color, which can be simply understood as the difference between RAW and JPG, and it is equivalent to lossless music compared with MP3 music. When it comes to post-processing of atlas, the power of RAW file is reflected. Adjust white balance, color space, gamma curve, etc. It is almost lossless in the original file. For the adjustment of white balance, even if the color temperature setting has reached an almost irreversible level, the RAW file can still guarantee the restoration of the most authentic color, but JPG is completely finished. If your photography level is not up to that of a professional photographer, you can take a photo in RAW format with your camera and get a good photo after post-processing.
3. Replaceable lenses bring higher playability.
Mobile phone lenses are usually wide-angle lenses, and the design of non-replaceable lenses determines that mobile phones are powerless in front of SLR or micro-single. The angle change brought by standard lens, wide-angle lens and telephoto lens is incomparable with mobile phone shooting. The blurred beauty of portrait brought by large aperture fixed focus lens makes people look natural and comfortable, but the blurred effect calculated by mobile phone software feels a bit fake.
4. Advantages of photography in the dark
The camera can use a large aperture lens with a large amount of light and a high ISO setting, so that photos with rich details can be taken in the dark, and the flash can fill the light at will, while the mobile phone can hardly take satisfactory photos in the dark.
To sum up, it is a good choice to buy a camera if you are not afraid of its bulky body and are willing to spend time and energy to learn photography.