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I am hardly a pro. I am touring Holland now. I use my iPhone primarily. Take out the Sony Nex7 for low light and shallow depth of field shots, relatively rarely.
Sorry, but this just conjures up the one Cheaters Episode where this ‘photographer’ cheater had two skanks in Bikinis out in his Texas rental house backyard in a kiddie pool and was making them ‘models’ into cover girls! Funny as hell, they caught him drunk with his camera phone in the midst of the session. Good show.
I am very partial to film. Anything that has such minimal resolution makes me long for the incredible potential of film. A 35mm negative has the digital equivalent of 175 mega pixels, which is way over the resolution of the high end DSLR. To me it is like trying to do great photography with a Brownie camera when you have a Nikon FM3a.
I will continue to deep freeze film for my Hasselblad 500CM and run them through a scanner after processing for a top resolution of 6400 x 9600 dpi or 500 mega pixels.
Any pro who couldn’t do good work with my Galaxy 5 or 6 or whateverthehell it is is no pro. However, as a tool it would narrow what he could do considerably. Pro’s don’t just “take pictures” they compose them.
I have a Sony NEX-7 camera with APS-C sensor. The link below shows it is 54% of the size of a 35mm full size sensor. All the major manufacturers are going to offer mirrorless sized cameras with full frame sensor this year. That size is same as the old film 35mm.
Much better resolution then any camera cell phone.
My LG G3 cell phone does take great photos and video but only if the subject is close. Example is of a hawk I took video of sitting on a tree branch maybe 20ft away. It was not as sharp as my NEX-7 would have been able to take by far. I wish I had my NEX-7 camera. The positive is I always carry the cell phone. If you are using your photos on the internet then a cell phone probably is all you need.
Sony NEX-7 test video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOVtX4G4MY I bought mine at Ebay and saved a lot. If you get this then you would be better off buying a better lens as the 18-55mm lens kit lens is not as sharp as the one Sony offers for sale to replace it, the 16-50mm lens which is much sharper.
Mirrorless Camera Sensor Size Comparison
http://www.photographerslounge.org/threads/11266/
Physical dimensions of sensors
https://mattsassamatt.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/sensor-size7.png
From the article:
“My actual commercial advertising work is still all done on the Alpa. My commercial clients want everything to be as big as possible, they want to be able to crop it long and thin for a website, tall and thin for an exhibition stand — they want everything out of a single shot and the iPhone’s resolution simply doesn’t offer that.”
Instead of photographers, they are called "phonographers".
