{"id":143610,"date":"2019-05-16T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=143610"},"modified":"2019-05-16T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:34:47","slug":"why-own-a-standalone-digital-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/16\/why-own-a-standalone-digital-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Own a Standalone Digital Camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays with the great image quality with phone cameras, what is the purpose of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153standalone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d digital camera \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is often bulkier, heavier, and less convenient to use?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Some practical thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Superior flash<\/strong> of standalone digital camera (in praise of RICOH GR II). You can create some images with certain visual effects which are not possible with phone cameras (quite yet). Having said that, using the flash on the Xiaomi 9 SE phone camera is actually quite good when shot up-close. But if you want to shoot \u00e2\u20ac\u0153long distance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d flash shots, a standalone camera is preferable. <\/li>
  2. You desire supreme dynamic range in terms of image quality (digital medium format). Or you desire a more beautiful aesthetic than smartphone camera (however with filters and presets, you can make beautiful looking smartphone camera photos). <\/li>
  3. Ergonomics<\/strong>: Some people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel comfortable shooting with a phone in terms of hand grip. I personally don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an issue here, but some people do. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In praise of film photography <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Truth be told, shooting with a standalone digital camera is pretty inconvenient now. You gotta shoot, import photos from SD card to your laptop, select the photos, process the photos, export the photos, then upload and backup the photos. So much unnecessary friction. For me, the workflow on a phone is 100x more streamlined, with far less friction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Which makes me wonder \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Perhaps we should barbell it: just shoot with our phone (digital camera) and shoot film (very inconvenient). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    Digital cameras without LCD screens are great.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Honestly at this point, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not really interested in any \u00e2\u20ac\u0153standalone digital cameras\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d besides perhaps the fascinating hybrid digital\/film cameras (Leica M-D, Leica M10-D). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a big fan of hybrid thinking (getting the best out of both worlds \u00e2\u20ac\u201d maximize the upside, and minimize the downside). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The point is to make more photos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Let us never forget \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the goal is for is to continually shoot more and make more photos! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To me, as long as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re shooting new photos all the time and having fun, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the right path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shoot with any and every camera, and seek to reduce creative friction from your life. This is why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m such a fan of shooting, processing, and sharing photos from a phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And also another creative idea \u00e2\u20ac\u201d experiment shooting more film, and also pick up a copy of FILM NOTES to keep you inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shoot on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A thought: Nowadays with the great image quality with phone cameras, what is the purpose of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153standalone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d digital camera \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is often bulkier, heavier, and less convenient to use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ERIC-KIM-PORTRAIT-SELFIE11.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143610"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143654,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143610\/revisions\/143654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}