Earlier today Jeremy Cowart posted this photo and the following:
“iPhone photo. Printed at 21 inches wide on Epson 4900. Hot Press Bright Paper. #nofilter WOW.”
If there was any doubt as to the possibility of using an iPhone 4S as an everyday shooter I think this clears it up quite nicely.
Of course the camera and the software (in this case, apps) are simply tools to create your art. Jeremy’s an extremely talented photographer and he knows a thing or 2 about printing. But the tool itself has so vastly improved that simply using a camera phone we can now create and print photos that rival that of the DSLRs of yesteryear.
And we can shoot, post process and upload all from the same, magical device.
I being able to shoot, edit and instantly upload photos on the go from a top notch camera. This mobile connectivity coupled with it’s excellent optics makes the iPhone 4S my ultimate camera.
Would I ever ditch my Canon 5D Mark II for the iPhone 4S? Of course not. They’re completely different devices with differing uses. To compare the two would be like comparing a Ferrari to a gallon of milk, but the iPhone definitely has it’s place in my photographic toolkit and is something that I use in myriad ways every day.
Barring some sort of ground breaking advancement in point and shoots, their days are definitely numbered. In my mind they’re already obsolete.
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