Smartphones Or Digital Cameras: Which One To Choose?

By Mike Thompson


It seems as if everyone you meet these days has a smartphone. Whether their preference is for a model manufactured by Apple or the increasingly popular Android based phones most consumers are taking full advantage of the cameras that are now standard with most models.

Nevertheless, most of these users are also happy owners of digital cameras, such as the Canon t3i. Is this a surprising fact? After all, smartphones are often used to conveniently take pictures to be posted online on social media sites like Facebook with fairly decent quality.

The truth of the matter is that although smartphones have advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years many consumers are still making use of devoted digital camera platforms. High end smartphones can take acceptable photographs, there is no doubt about that, however the cost of many of these phones is far in excess of the cost of compact digital cameras that take far superior photographs.

There are also a multitude of different compact digital cameras that are specifically manufactured for certain environments. A perfect example is those holidaymakers who will be spending time at a beach resort.

If you're booked for a snorkeling excursion would you rather have a smartphone or a waterproof compact digital camera with you? For many the risk of losing their phones which today containing huge amounts of data,as well as being extremely pricey to replace is not a risk they are willing to take.

A really robust compact digital camera will be able to stand the common knocks and bumps that are part and parcel of hiking or even visits to local attractions in a tourist bus. Drop one of today's impact resistant digital cameras and you might have to put up with a few scuff marks. Drop a high end smartphone onto a concrete floor from any height and a cracked screen will be the least of your worries.

There is also the simple matter of pixels. For those who really on crisp photography to make a living the cameras that are integrated into almost every smartphone are just not up to the job. Architects, surveyors and even realtors need the crispness that is supplied by those extra pixels in even value for money digital compact cameras.

Ultimately, whether you choose a smartphone or a digital camera is really up to you. Even though smartphones can take digital photos within acceptable limits, the cost for you to replace it is very high. A decent digital camera can be afforded with a smaller price tag as well as spreading the risk of valuable data loss.




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