Mobile phone photography.

[FiestaRed]

The older I get, the more m knees complain about carrying a large bag and heavy tripod. I'd like to partially switch to using a mobile phone for a couple of months just to see how they compare.

I've asked about phones for photography on sites such as GiffGaff but not had many replies. I'd like to find out if any of the later iPhones are any better than others for taking photographs and, if possible, find out if all the shots posted online are hand held or are people using some form of support and shutter release.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

to see how they compare

Very badly

 

[FiestaRed]

Very badly

Thanks for the really helpful explanation. Most appreciated.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Thanks for the really helpful explanation. Most appreciated.

Best not to feed the animals!

To answer your question as best I can, I recently aquired an iPhone 16 and was pleasantly surprised by the image quality, especially with night images. I'm still getting to grips with importing them but if you're looking for some samples I'll post them as soon as I work it out.

Ergonomics is the big hurdle I found. The 16 makes an effort to provide a grip similar to a conventional camera but it still takes some getting used to. I can't see my changing to the iPhone from my existing cameras but it's a useful addition to the "armoury".

 

[FiestaRed]

Best not to feed the animals!

To answer your question as best I can, I recently aquired an iPhone 16 and was pleasantly surprised by the image quality, especially with night images. I'm still getting to grips with importing them but if you're looking for some samples I'll post them as soon as I work it out.

Ergonomics is the big hurdle I found. The 16 makes an effort to provide a grip similar to a conventional camera but it still takes some getting used to. I can't see my changing to the iPhone from my existing cameras but it's a useful addition to the "armoury".

Thanks for the help Andrew. I see a lot of great phone images online and it always make me wonder if they were 'hand held'. Mobile phones are not the most comfortable thing to hold.

 

[Craikeybaby]

Generally the "Pro Max" iPhones are better than the "Pro" iPhones, which in turn are better than the regular iPhones. But like a lot of these things, the photographer will make a difference.

 

[lindsay]

Bear in mind that a lot of what you see posted online taken by phone camera, has been both automatically and manually been modified by inbuilt software and AI tools. They can and do produce good images much of the time, but are awkward to handle as a camera and if you want to do anything other than snapshot, you need to learn and be adept with menus and tools that have certain key presses or gestures to access. Also bear in mind that you are not comparing like with like.
Personally, I'd recommend strongly to consider one of the better small bridge cameras that Sony, Fuji and Panasonic produce (inter alia)