The iPhone camera has high performance, but I still want a digital camera: Keitai Watch

Last time, I wrote that “the iPad is enough and I can’t buy a new MacBook” (Reference article) By the way, I have not replaced the digital camera that I use at work. The digital cameras I am using now are the Sony “NEX-5R” interchangeable lens camera released in 2012 and the Sony “DSC-RX100M2” compact digital camera released in 2013. Both are quite old.

Recently, there are more and more opportunities to publish photos taken with the iPhone in the media, because recently the author is a sister medium of Keitai Watch.Awesome watchThis is because there are more opportunities to cover homes like condos.

An ultra wide angle lens with a wide angle of view is almost indispensable for taking a wide picture of the interior of a house in general. However, ultra-wide-angle lenses are rarely installed in compact digital cameras, and the lenses of interchangeable-lens cameras cost more than 100,000 yen and are difficult to reach.

On the other hand, many modern smartphone models are equipped with ultra wide angle lenses.

It is also installed in the “iPhone 13” series. The focal length equivalent to a 35mm film camera, which is shorter is the widest angle, and the standard is about 45mm (although there are several theories), but the iPhone 13 series ultra-wide camera can shoot at a fairly wide angle. 13mm sight. Also, the quality of the image is good, and even if you take it without thinking, it is so beautiful that you can publish it in the middle.

For example, this article “I have seen the condo “MOCXION INAGI” made of “wood” (Impress Watch)More than half of the photos posted to “” are taken with the iPhone.

With the main camera of a smartphone, you can shoot with better image quality than a super wide angle lens. Just by releasing the shutter properly without making detailed manual adjustments, AI will correct the brightness, backlight, and color tone. Compared to digital cameras 10 years ago, there is less noise when shooting in the dark and in many situations it is a level that can be posted to the medium as is.

You may think that you no longer need a digital camera, but that is not the case. When it comes to work, there are a few things that a smartphone camera doesn’t have.

Taken with the iPhone 13 Pro’s main camera, when zoomed in with a wide angle lens, only part of the subject appears large.

If you shoot from the pulled position, the stereoscopic effect will be suppressed, but you will need to shoot with digital zoom or crop later.

First is telephoto shooting.

Smartphones are close to wide-angle even with the main camera, measuring around 26mm in terms of 35mm film cameras, which is an area generally thought of as a wide-angle lens. If you want to take a photo of the subject to fill the screen, you have to get closer to it, and if you take a supposed shot, only the front of the subject will be large and it will be a bit unnatural. .

Taken with a 3x telephoto lens on iPhone 13 Pro. Detail description is bleeding

However, the image quality of the telephoto lens installed on some smartphones, such as the Pro model of the iPhone, is not good. The level is that the “main camera digital zoom” is better. First of all, except for some models, the zoom magnification is not great, making it difficult to take pictures of people who are on stage at a recital, for example.

Taken with the 24mm lens of the NEX-5R with the F value open at f / 1.8. I can’t tell the details because only part of the lens in the foreground is in focus.

Taken with the same lens with the F-value lowered to f / 5.6. This is still a bit blurry, but if you design a wider shooting angle you can convey the details to some extent.

The other difference is what you can do when shooting manually. With some exceptions, smartphone cameras cannot adjust the “aperture” F number. Generally speaking, the lower the F-number, the brighter the image, the more easily the background is blurred, and lenses with a low F-number are useful, and smartphones with a low fixed F-number are popular.

Sure, it’s good for photos that emphasize the subject with a blurred background, but it’s difficult to use for detailed photos of the appearance of products I take at work.

There is nothing you can do about this area with your current smartphone camera, so you can’t just shoot all your work with your smartphone, so you have to have a separate digital camera.

As for that, the author’s digital camera, which will become a player for 10 years, is about to be replaced, but … it is difficult to replace it for another reason, which is different from the MacBook replacement that I wrote. in the previous article. Because I have a small commitment.

The compromise is that “the next digital camera you buy will be USB Type-C compliant.”

Recently, I am charging my iPhone with MagSafe, even when I am on the go (Reference article), Lightning cables are almost unnecessary, just a “USB Type-C” cable for peripherals like iPads and mobile batteries.

I’d like to avoid adding microUSB to that, but many digital cameras use microUSB even in current products. For new products with a new design, the number of products that use USB Type-C is increasing, but for successor products with the same case as the previous model, even new products often use microUSB.

For the author, digital cameras are not replaced in two or three years, so I think that USB Type-C is indispensable for the next model to be selected as a model that can be used conveniently for a long period of time. In that case, there are quite a few options, and I review the product regularly, but every time I say, “This new product looks good, why is it microUSB?”

I think it is a trivial problem, but it is a trivial problem, which is why I would like camera manufacturers to promote the adoption of the Type-C these days.