At a time when we can click high-resolution pictures and video with our mobile phones, do we need separate cameras or is it that smart phones are eating up the space for professional or proper cameras?
WHILE THEY might not be the perfect device for professional photography but people who have a passion for memories and wants to capture the most spontaneous and natural shots do not care for SLR’s or accurate lenses. For them 5 megapixels of a smart phone camera are alright and portable enough to be carried anywhere without worrying too much. In a way we can prove what the British market has found out: that smart phones are indeed eating away the market for the professional cameras. However, if we take the words of a photographer, for whom the picture clarity and the techniques matter more than the candid moments, then we will find that professional cameras also have their market but definitely the proportion have decreased due to the smart phones with the inbuilt cameras.
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A professional photographer Ashim Sunam said, “Smartphones can never eat up the market space for the SLR’s if a person is concentrating solely on the pictures. We can say that the Digital camera is doing something to the effect but there would always be a market for the SLR.” However, his words were highly contradictory to Divya Juyal, a web designer who said that she bought her Samsung Galaxy S because it had a 5 megapixel inbuilt camera. Almost majority of the people of today’s world think on the same lines.
According to an article by zeenews.com, the NPD Group have recorded that the market for the ‘point and shoot’ camera went down by 17 percent as compared to 2010 over the same period of time. After a survey, they found that teenagers and adults, who were not into artistic or professional photography, were keener into buying smart phones.
This also had a flipside as smart phones are used more by the people who have forgotten to take their SLR’s for an office gathering or impromptu celebrations but people always take their Digital camera and SLR’s when they go out on a vacation to exotic places. This proves that while the smart phones with good cameras are in demand, however people are still looking for the picture perfect clarity and preciseness of technique of the professional cameras.
