Originally Posted by clonmult:
“I haven't seen a cheap compact thats any good for action shots - they're made for average users.
I'll agree to a point with the low light issue, but a phone with a decent flash (ie. N82, or a K750 with the addon flash) can easily equal a cheap compact camera for low light photography. Just because you haven't seen one, doesn't mean that they don't exist.”
I didn't say they were good, I said they were better than phone cameras. But ok, excluding camera phones without a xenon flash (like the iPhone), compact cameras are way ahead in low light conditions.
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“Those dedicated cameras will have a larger zoom range, but at least the iPhone has optics dedicated to one focal length - and you can't argue that you have to spend thousands on a DSLR zoom lens thats not got compromised optics. The best SLR lenses are normally the primes - fixed focal length.
I'm sure I've seen methods for geotagging DSLR photos, some addon available for some models?”
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“Those dedicated cameras will have a larger zoom range, but at least the iPhone has optics dedicated to one focal length - and you can't argue that you have to spend thousands on a DSLR zoom lens thats not got compromised optics. The best SLR lenses are normally the primes - fixed focal length.”
I'm saying that *any* DSLR, even with a cheap kit zoom lens, will take better shots than the iPhone 4. Bigger lens, bigger sensor = better picture. The only comparison I could find between the iPhone 4 camera and a compact camera concluded that the iPhone came close, but the small sensor let it down in low light conditions. A comparison of the iPhone 4 versus a DSLR just doesn't exist because it is a ridiculous notion.