unphocus

sector7g said:

Just like digital stabilization is worse than optical. The artificial blur will never be as good as real optical focus.

Optical and digital stabilization has their own advantages over the other. I wouldn’t say that one is better than the other. 

Here are are some advantages of digital stabilization:
1. I can use decades old manual lenses
2. In DSLR cases, I only have to pay for stabilization once—in the camera—not in every lens I buy
3. Makes my overall gear lighter
4. Six axis stabilization while optical has three

I don’t need to point out the advantages of optical since you already know that. Cheers! 😊

gmgravytrain said:

Marques Brownlee has a rather decent video on Youtube explaining DxOMark ratings. An interesting take on those number ratings for cameras:

DxOMark are for measurebaters. That’s not to say it’s useless or has no merit but cameras, in my experience, simply don’t perform better in the real world because it has a DxOMark score. 

Comparing cameras performance is a tricky thing to do. Comparing portrait shots (of the same subject and same lighting) from two different cameras is a bit easier if it’s done correctly. None of the comparisons I’ve seen can be considered as such. 

Comparing photos taken with with flash from places with bad lighting is even trickier considering most people don’t know what to look for and what aspect of phone camera (or any camera for that matter) capabilities should be tested. Most pro I know of not only look for how bright a flash can light up the subject but also looks for distribution of the light that the flash generates, quality of the light from flash, accuracy of colors, noise level, details loss, and more. 

All camera, including DSLRs shooting RAW, show a JPGs photos on the screen when reviewing a photo that’s just taken. So all cameras does JPG processing—different camera makers process their captured image differently and prioritizing some aspect of photos more than others.

So when looking at photos from smartphones, specially on YouTube, it will be very difficult to say which is taken with what camera. 

Having said all that, I prefer iPhone camera to take photos with than Android (that’s probably bias) but that’s not to say that I can’t take good photos some high end Android phones. 

Sometimes I do wish I have more access to Android phones to compare photos side by side with iPhones. 

Ever since iPhone 4, I’ve been very impressed how good phone cameras has become. And every time I go hiking, I never use my DSLR anymore. My DSLR is for special events like shooting actions or just about anything I can’t do with camera phone. 

Another misleading headline.

I don’t think I’ll ever buy Samsung consumer electronics products anymore. I just buy from the company they’re copying from.