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Photography is one of my main passions. You can find many entries here about my workflows, my camera, lenses, etc…<\/p>\n

I have a nikon d300 with a couple of lenses covering from 10-200 mm. Before this one I had a Panasonic DMZ (I forgot the model, but not a compact) and some other digital cameras.<\/p>\n

Previously I had a canon A1 (not a digital camera) with lenses.<\/p>\n

I have a website a bit forgotten with photos http:\/\/norai.net<\/a> a NAS with 60.000 photos and flicker with nearly 50.000.<\/p>\n

I can say that 90% of the photos I take now are with my iPhone 4s. Why?<\/h4>\n

I always carry my phone. The quality of the photos is decent, and a good photo does not require an outstanding camera.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/h4>\n

I mentioned I always carry my Phone, but also it is connected. It has 3g and wifi, so photos are shared\/uploaded easily. It has a GPS so they are geotagged. It has apps (software) to manipulate the photos if you wish.<\/p>\n

With my nikon, I shoot raw and I carry a GPS logger. I have to extract the photos with a card reader to a laptop, I have to extract the GPS log files. I have to merge the raw files with the GPS coordinates, I have to run DxO to correct aberrations, vignetting and optic distortion and only then I have JPG ready, but as you can see is quite a process, that I am ready to follow if I go on holidays or if there is a special occasion, but this is less than 10% of the time.<\/p>\n

Why I do not upgrade my DSLR?<\/h4>\n

Because the next DSLR should make my life easier. It should have GPS and connectivity. It should be full frame and have a reasonable price. Now only few are giving you all this (the new canon 6d).<\/p>\n

Now everybody is a photographer with apps such as Instagram and cameras such as the iPhone’s.<\/p>\n

How do I see the future?<\/h4>\n

The new iPhone surely will have a better camera. Probably better than any other smartphone. It will shoot with low light and will have a decent pixel count, which is around 12Mpx. (we don’t need more than that, even in DSLRs).<\/p>\n

I don’t think they can fit optical zoom into a phone and that is why if you want field depth and zoom you will still need other digital cameras, otherwise I expect smartphones to continue being the most used cameras.<\/p>\n

Compact cameras will become more like telephones (connected) and DSLR also. You will be able to do digital manipulations in the camera, and they will be connected.<\/p>\n

I will continue shooting with DSLR because I like it, but the ration 90\/10 will remain the same.<\/p>\n

Look at the latest iPhone commercial. The iPhone 5 is the most popular digital camera…
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