Night test image

Awesome night shot!

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Beautiful night shot.

I must say the results are really amazing, cheap "noramal" cameras probably would do much worse!

For such a high ISO, this is amazing, George. Now - do I ditch my proper cameras?

A good question, Amelia, and clearly many people have ditched their pocket compact cameras. I think there's still a good case for more advanced enthusiast cameras though.

ADDENDUM: I've just taken this (also in PiP) with the full frame camera (Pentax K1) fitted with a manual f2.8 28mm lens. The interesting thing is that the ISO is 12800, as with the phone image, but the aperture of f2.8 is much slower than the phone's f1.7 - yet the shutter speed here was FASTER than the phone (0.25 sec, rather than 0.5 sec) and the image exposure looks much the same. Something doesn't match I suspect!

I'm not technically minded at all but I guess the full frame camera has a larger sensor than the phone and so more light comes in which might explain the difference.

What amazes me is the starburst at f/1,7, I have no idea how a phone camera manages this when a "normal" lens will only do it stopped down.

The starburst effect with the smart phone is better. And - the smart phone gets rid of wheelie bins. What a bonus. ;-)

Those are pretty good shots for a phone camera, though the Pentax photo is quite a bit better. I suspect it's the better sensor in the Pentax that gives such good results at 12800 ISO, but you, I'm sure, know that.

Super cool experiment, George. It's an important enlightenment for us to understand in our own shoes and not just from reading or hearing from another, how our photography experience has changed with the advent of excellent phone cameras. It's also equally important to open our minds and accept that this is a totally reasonable alternative and often makes it possible to get a nice picture instead of none at all. :) Most of us become stubborn rock-heads in regards to accepting something which we once considered totally inferior---I FINALLY knocked my stupid bias off its pedestal and it's so fun to see you doing this too. :) (don't know how rock-headed you were, or exactly how bad your bias was, but you know what I mean!)

Like this, George !

Really impressive~

What surprises me most is the fact that the full frame camera captured the waste bin and the smart phone didn't ;-)
No, great experiments and a good article, too!

The smartphone has automatic trash removal;-)

...that came immediately to my mind as well ;-))

sufficiently good for a smartphone, but the camera is obviously better... anyway an interesting experiment !