[Fuzziekiwi]

  All cameras are good nowadays. Even the iPhone has a remarkably good camera.

Lacks settings though. It could never take pictures like this: 
http://ivanandreevich.deviantart.com/art/Blue-Love-475422771

 

[bigshot]

I took this with my iPhone 4. The new iPhone has an even better camera.
 

 

[Kiwikat]

  I took this with my iPhone 4. The new iPhone has an even better camera.
 

 
That's nice... let me know when it can get detailed shots of jets flying hundreds of miles per hour.
 

 
... or have the reaction time and speed to capture exactly the moment you wanted
 

 

[bigshot]

I like to take pictures of people better than jets.

 

[Kiwikat]

  I like to take pictures of people better than jets.

 
That's fine, but there are definitely reasons for needing a DSLR, even today when we have cameras in toasters, wrist watches, and phones.

 

[Fuzziekiwi]

I just bought a Prime lens :>

 

[bigshot]

   
That's fine, but there are definitely reasons for needing a DSLR, even today when we have cameras in toasters, wrist watches, and phones.

 
And there are definite advantages to having a really good camera that fits in your shirt pocket and has enough resolution to print 8x10 with no problem.
 
By the way, there are apps for the iPhone that allow you to adjust the settings on the camera.

 

[Fuzziekiwi]

 

   
That's fine, but there are definitely reasons for needing a DSLR, even today when we have cameras in toasters, wrist watches, and phones.

 
And there are definite advantages to having a really good camera that fits in your shirt pocket and has enough resolution to print 8x10 with no problem.
 
By the way, there are apps for the iPhone that allow you to adjust the settings on the camera.

Pretty sure they don't have settings for aperture, shutter speed though. Cameras are pretty damn good nowadays but they certainly aren't at the level of the good DSLRS.

 

[bigshot]

The little camera in your pocket is a lot better to you than the big one back home in the bag when the opportunity for a photo arises. Steiglitz did pretty well with a "miniature" camera. The art of photography is visualizing, not the mechanics of taking photographs. People get way to wrapped up in the technical aspects of photography and forget what it's really about.
 
An artist can make art with a lump of charcoal. The camera doesn't make the photographer.

 

[Fuzziekiwi]

  The little camera in your pocket is a lot better to you than the big one back home in the bag when the opportunity for a photo arises. Steiglitz did pretty well with a "miniature" camera. The art of photography is visualizing, not the mechanics of taking photographs. People get way to wrapped up in the technical aspects of photography and forget what it's really about.
 
An artist can make art with a lump of charcoal. The camera doesn't make the photographer.

Yes a good photographer could make good images with a crappy camera, but sometimes it's those little details that those little cameras simply cannot take, especially fast moving things. 

 

[Frank I]

   
That's fine, but there are definitely reasons for needing a DSLR, even today when we have cameras in toasters, wrist watches, and phones.

What lens did you use at the air show- I wanted to shoot the show in Atlantic City but did not have the time this year. I like using the d7100 with the Nikon 300 prime for air shows over it on my D610/. The 1.3 crop of the d7100 get me to 600MM- fu shooting planes at high speed

 

[Kiwikat]

I've got the "new" Tamron 150-600mm VC lens. It is quite phenomenal for the price. It is very sharp through 500 and probably acceptable for most at 600.

 

[musubi1000]

Switching cameras is like switching golf clubs. It's only as good as the one swinging it.

 

[musubi1000]

The DSLR will be dead in less than 10 years.

 

[Fuzziekiwi]

Oh sure, the HD800 will be dead in less than 10 years because earpods will surpass it by then.