Use Your Phone

Back in 2006 I owned a Sony Ericsson's Z520i mobile, this was a small clamshell phone with a fixed focus camera (VGA, 640x480 pixels). Putting a camera in a phone really was a big leap forward for photography. Great, I had a camera in my pocket all the time. Initially I was very pleased with the photos, the screen on the phone was only about an inch square, so you could not really see the photo and any detail. On my PC they looked alright, on a bright day it took some nice photos. Compare that to the above photo I took with my Moto Edge 40 Neo which takes a 12MP (megapixel) pixel image binned down from 50MP.

Camera technology in phones has progressed at a phenomenal rate; the phone is now a top spec do everything device in your pocket. The latest mobiles more than rival compact digital cameras, with OIS autofocusing, Google AI built in to remove or add people in a photo. For a "content creator" we have reached the point when their mobile is the only camera they need. The current generation of phones take very good photos and with an estimated 7.5 billion smartphones users worldwide - that's a hell of a lot of photos and videos!