http://connect.dpreview.com/
DPReview is the gold standard for websites that offer equipment reviews and discussion about photography. Now they have spawned a new site called Connect. It's dedicated to mobile photography, meaning photography as practiced using the cameras found in smart phones and tablets. The new website includes reviews of cameras found in mobile devices, and discussion of techniques to improve the resulting images. Part of that latter discussion involves software that can manipulate the image after it's captured. It's a pretty broad area to cover.
There's no question that exposures made using mobile devices have a way to go to match the quality produced by the current crop of inexpensive point and shoot cameras. But smart phone photography (and videography) is more than good enough to meet the needs of many people. The smart phone has a permanent spot in our pockets, so it's the device most likely to be used in a spur-of-the-moment photo op. For example, Flickr, the popular photo storing and sharing site, shows the iPhone is the camera used most often by its members. http://www.flickr.com/cameras/
Maybe most important, the new web site allows DPReview to move discussion of mobile photography off of its original website. So the DSLR folks won't have to wade through reviews of Instagram and each new iPhone.
DPReview is the gold standard for websites that offer equipment reviews and discussion about photography. Now they have spawned a new site called Connect. It's dedicated to mobile photography, meaning photography as practiced using the cameras found in smart phones and tablets. The new website includes reviews of cameras found in mobile devices, and discussion of techniques to improve the resulting images. Part of that latter discussion involves software that can manipulate the image after it's captured. It's a pretty broad area to cover.
There's no question that exposures made using mobile devices have a way to go to match the quality produced by the current crop of inexpensive point and shoot cameras. But smart phone photography (and videography) is more than good enough to meet the needs of many people. The smart phone has a permanent spot in our pockets, so it's the device most likely to be used in a spur-of-the-moment photo op. For example, Flickr, the popular photo storing and sharing site, shows the iPhone is the camera used most often by its members. http://www.flickr.com/cameras/
Maybe most important, the new web site allows DPReview to move discussion of mobile photography off of its original website. So the DSLR folks won't have to wade through reviews of Instagram and each new iPhone.
