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by newaccount74 1264 days ago
It used to be that iPhones made great, tasteful photos by default. That was why people bought them.

If I wanted to spend time processing every snapshot I take with my phone, I wouldn't use my phone at all, I'd use my X100T and get pictures that are much better than anything the phone can do.
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flobosg 1264 days ago
> I wouldn't use my phone at all, I'd use my X100T

That’s what I’m actually doing. My Pixel 3 died suddenly in November 2021. Since it was an emergency, I bought a cheap phone with a horrible camera, intending to upgrade it quickly and taking photos with my X100T in the meantime. A year later and I’m still using that setup. The camera is portable enough to take it everywhere, the processing presets are good enough for me, and I have the RAW files available just in case. I’m probably in the minority of people who would do something like this, but I’m pretty happy so far.

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Matrixik 1263 days ago
I have Sony A7III and basically learned how to take pictures so that jpg files out of the camera looks good. I shoot jpg + RAW but I almost never touch RAW files. And people are really surprised when I'm telling them that (especially photographers). I like taking pictures, not editing them. It's definitely minority of people and I heard from many new photographers I meet that I'm wasting my camera abilities. Almost as if I'm not editing pictured from camera then I'm not "real" photographer. Thankfully I don't care anymore about it and I'm happy with my pictures (and my family, friends and other photographers that got used to me :P).
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illiac786 1262 days ago
> It used to be that iPhones made great, tasteful photos by default. That was why people bought them.

I think most people buy iPhones because it's a status symbol or because it's what they are accustomed to. Certainly not because of feature A or B, and most definitely not if that feature is "tasteful photos", whatever that means (whose taste?).

But there is a small vocal minority which cares about picture quality, that is true. Totally irrelevant to apple's bottom line though.

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