On YouTube there's a community feature. Inside there you can do polls. I've been
doing that for quite a while to see what all of you think about different topics.
I'm going to go over one today. Specifically the one about smartphones.
And if you use smartphones, how do you use smartphones? So the first one that I
did was: "Never, never... and I mean never". That got 12%. The second one was for casual
photos that got 62%, which is pretty not surprising. That's what I expected for
the most part. And the third one was casual and serious photography. That got
21%, so I'm actually curious... We're gonna talk about that. And also we've got the
last one: "Not really but they want to. That only got 4%, so maybe one or two people.
I usually don't get too many votes on these polls, but in the future if you
see those please definitely select something on there. So I can get more
information. Start with the first one never 12%. I'm not surprised. There are
some people that are very adamant against phones. I'm personally not of
that camp. I use them when they're useful to me in different situations. It's super
convenience. I've made some videos on this just the recent one about
convention photography. Which... it worked decently well actually. Other ones
that I've done they also worked pretty well, but I also didn't have a lot of
views and stuff on them. Which is just kind of a added negative so I'm trying
to work on my ability to make videos about smartphone photography in a way
that people find it useful and interesting. So I would be interested if
you selected the "never", why did you do that and what's holding you back? Is that
the ergonomics? Which are a negative of phones for sure. But what else is it? It may be
you want ultimate quality all the time? I don't know. Just let me know in the
comments. And of course casual photography was the easily selectable
one. A lot of people did pick that one. And I'm probably more of that camp than
the other ones. It just makes sense. It's easy it's convenient it's there... If you
want to just take photos of your friends or whatever you can easily do that.
Works out nicely.
How ya doing?
For another one we have serious and casual photography. I'm also
curious about this one. What are you doing with this... in a serious way? Actually I
should say in my poll I said photography and videography. So maybe on the video
side it makes more sense to use a phone for serious stuff sometimes. Based on
what you're trying to film. I've done that a lot in my videos. I don't know if
you've noticed, but some of the lower quality.. but useful clips that I've been
able to do with a phone definitely help out. So with that it makes sense to do a
mixture, if you can with a phone. Especially with the newer phones you can
more easily get higher quality stuff out of it. So I would be very curious to
know what you're doing serious with your phones. Either photography or videography.
Then the last one is: not really but you want to. I can understand that if you
have a low quality phone. Definitely, like in my case it's not great. Quite a few
situations it works out ok sometimes. But I can see if you have a lower quality
super cheap phone then it's just not going to work too well. Especially if you
have some type of dedicated camera that's really not a big reason to use
the phone if you don't mind the convenience factor. Then I did have one
option that no one selected. It was: I only use a phone for photo and video. No
one picked that. So it still may be a good indication that the phones are not
there at a quality level even at the high-end. That people won't use it
exclusively. Or at least people voting in the poll won't use it exclusively, so
that's interesting. In the poll I mentioned trying to get more phones to try out go
into detail on the photo and video side of them. The different cameras, the
different apps.. the manufacturers app that comes with it is usually got
special features and things. Also, the Open Camera application which I use a lot.
Actually using it on my second phone here just as having two different angles
for this video. See how it works out. Super bright today if you can tell. Basically
I'm gonna try to get.. source.. different phones. It's pretty challenging at my
subscriber level that companies are aren't super interested, no surprise, to
send me a phone to check out and go into detail on. But the goal would be to take
that phone. Try it out in detail. Compare it to an actual camera like the M50 or
the M5 that have got. And I even have the 30D now which is 8 megapixels. That
would be actually a good indication on absolute resolution. Considering it has a
much larger sensor than most phones, but that would be the goal is to get those
cameras and really go into some nice detail. So I could decide, at least for
myself, and hopefully other people. That would be the goal. Ee'll see. I have one
idea that I might try out. It's a used phone that I'm looking at. Prices are
okay, but eBay is not a great place for used phones. There's so many cracked
cameras and cracked front screens on the phones. But I'm looking at one will
see if I pick one up and I'll try to do that concept on that phone. Anyways, I hope
you enjoy this video. I might try it more in the future. Maybe in an area that's
not as bright. But I wanted to go outside. And this is a good reason. So hope you
enjoyed the video. Super low editing. Just trying out... and talking. See how it works out.
I'm Scott from Photography Banzai, thanks!