“Everyone knows that the iPhone 5S has a great camera,” Sam Byford writes for The Verge. “I say it myself all the time, even as someone who’s spent too many thousands on cameras and lenses over the years.”
“What does that really mean, though? It’s true that the iPhone 5S does take better pictures than just about any other smartphone. But how close am I to throwing away my dedicated photography setup?” Byford writes. “I decided to put the 5S against a ‘real’ camera — taking near-identical snapshots across a day and night in Harajuku, Tokyo — to see how things shake out in practice.”
“In the blue corner, we have Fujifilm’s wonderful X-T1, our favorite mirrorless camera to date and the one more suited to pros than any other. It has great image quality, well-thought-out controls, and an amazing viewfinder — when a camera’s biggest fault is how clicky the buttons on the back are, you know it’s good,” Byford writes. “In the red corner, we have Apple’s iPhone 5S, the latest iteration of the world’s most popular smartphone. While Apple touted a bigger sensor and faster lens when introducing the 5S, it’s still more space-constrained than even the cheapest point-and-shoot on the market. But Apple has a secret weapon in the A7 chip and its excellent image signal processing, with tight integration between software and hardware.”
Tons more, including side-by-side photo examples, in the full article – recommended – here.
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