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\"\"<\/a>Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max (5.1mm, f\/1.6, 1\/610 sec, ISO32)
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Yesterday I took a long walk on a frosty day. I took no camera because I didn’t plan to take any pictures. But I didn’t even make it past my car without taking one.<\/p>\n

If you are a photographer, you are a photographer and because of that you are constantly looks for images even if you have no camera with you. And the ice on my windshield of my car was a perfect image.<\/p>\n

So luckily I had a camera with me. the one in my iPhone 12 Pro max. A long name for a cool and very big phone. I was an early adopter and completely switched to digital photography in January 2002. Almost 20 years ago. And I got my first mirrorless in 2010. A Sony NEX 5. The NEX 5 and many mirrorless cameras that came after it were hopeless compared to DSLRs. Slow autofocus, slow frame rates, slow operation but I knew back then that in a couple of years DSLRs would be as dead as a dodo. And now they are for anything but sport photography or action photography and even in it that field things are going to change: Nikon Z9.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max (5.1mm, f\/1.6, 1\/1100 sec, ISO32)
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But I honestly had no idea that mobile phones will become such excellent cameras. I can’t even remember my first mobile phone that had a camera but I think it was the iPhone 4. My company phones at that time were Blackberry’s and I think they didn’t have a camera. But the camera in the iPhone 4 was very poor and I didn’t take many pictures. My next phone was the iPhone 6 plus and things got a little better. I used to take more pictures with it and in good light it was rather good.<\/p>\n

My next step was the iPhone Xs and its camera was a game changer. Excellent HDR and impressive video I couldn’t imagine that it could go any better. Well my iPhone 12 Pro max was another dramatic step. Especially in low light\/high contrast scenes it is truly impressive and I would need to work hard on the RAW files of my cameras or even take multiple exposures to create something similar. The results are really impressive.<\/p>\n

Will phones replace my cameras in the future? I don’t think so simply because I love to shoot with a real camera. I just love to use different lenses, to play around with knobs and to use a nice viewfinder. No phone can give me that. But of course I will take more and more images with my phone. Because the image I get is already better than what I got from my small sensor digital cameras. But most of all because my phone is always with me. In that sense it is already the best camera today.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max (5.1mm, f\/1.6, 1\/900 sec, ISO32)
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