Curently Smartphones camera's are giving competition to DSLR Camera's.But Why?
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At DXOMARK we have watched over the years as smartphone cameras have gone from being a novelty to becoming the world’s most popular way of capturing photographs. In a keynote session at Electronic Imaging 2020, our CEO and CTO, Frederic Guichard, began by providing a historical perspective on the rise of smartphone photography and how it has been made possible by impressive advances in technology. He then demonstrated how smartphone cameras compare today with current standalone digital cameras, and how they have different strengths and weaknesses. Finally, he presented a case for the roles of smartphones and cameras, and speculated about how they are likely to evolve in the future.
In this article, we share his analysis, along with some of the images he used to illustrate the history, strengths, and weaknesses of both smartphone and standalone cameras.
There is no better illustration of the increased popularity of smartphones for photography than these shots of groups of photographers. Ten years ago they were full of people with various compact cameras and DSLRs. Now, almost all you see are smartphones.
The crossover occurred about the same time we introduced our DXOMARK protocol in 2012—by 2011 more than a quarter of all photographs captured were taken using smartphone cameras. By 2015, over one trillion photos were being captured each year, with the vast majority of them coming from smartphones.
The sheer number of photos taken on smartphones is one obvious result of their increasing market share overall. By 2013 they were outselling digital cameras of all kinds by a factor of more than 10 to 1. Initially, it wasn’t obvious that this transition would happen so quickly—and it certainly caught many camera makers flat-footed. But in hindsight it is straightforward to see what caused the rapid adoption of smartphones for photography.