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Are mobile phone cameras better than cameras?

By Waseem Afzal

When mobile phones with built in cameras first started becoming available, most people saw it as nothing more than a novelty. Thanks to advances in technology, tiny cameras could now be fitted into the case of virtually any phone, whether it was a SIM free phone, or whether it was tied in to one of the providers.

Although these early cameras enable us to take photographs, pictures were at best a very poor quality and as such, they served no real purpose. Even though we were able to transfer these images onto our computers, or insert them into messages, because of their poor quality, they weren't really of any use to us.

Despite the limitation of the early camera phones, we loved them and they became a 'must-have' item for many of us. We loved them because suddenly it was possible to take a picture anytime, anywhere. Young people were particularly big fans of the camera phone because it unlocked a new level of freedom.

Of course, it was only a matter of time before these cameras with being built into virtually all phones and as a result the novelty inevitably began to wear off. As is to be expected, mobile phone manufacturers soon started looking for new ways in order to attract buyers, and so we saw the arrival of different colored phones as well as a range of sim free phones.

By now camera phones had proven beyond all doubt that they were in fact extremely versatile. People started using them more and more frequently in a variety of ways. For example, you could be lying on a beach on the other side of the world and you could take photos and send them to friends and family without even having to leave the beach.

Mobile phone camera had a commercial use as well. Estate agents could quickly circulate pictures of new properties, and motor dealers could use them to send pictures of car. Engineers could share problems or resolutions immediately via a photo message.

This meant that we wanted better and better cameras in our phones. Today it's possible to get a phone which has an 8 mega pixel camera built into it - that's as good as many of dedicated entry-level cameras on the market. So why buy two gadgets when one will do?

What you may want to take into consideration is, the key to taking high quality photographs, is the camera lens. Of course, because dedicated cameras have larger lenses than mobile phone cameras, they are thus able to take better pictures, and this is something any professional photographer will confirm.

However, another essential ingredient for a good photo is composition, and this relies on the photographer, not the camera. Another factor that's very important is how will the photo be used? If you want to create a massive poster from your photograph you will need to take it with a very high quality camera. But if you want to post it on Facebook almost as soon as you've taken it - you'll need a phone camera.

It's really a matter of "six of one and half a dozen of the other", in that while dedicated cameras are superior from a technical point of view, mobile phone cameras on the other hand rank higher in terms of accessibility and usefulness. In fact, they've gained so much ground in recent years than most people no longer have a need to carry a phone and camera. The bottom line is; irrespective of what phone you want to buy, just make sure that it comes with a built in camera.

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