I love my iPhone and I’ve taken more pictures and video with it than I ever thought I would. The pictures are not great, but their convenient and easy in part because I have my iPhone with me all the time. But the iPhone is no digital SLR. But before I share my iPhone dream with you, let me give you a little of my photography background.
Through the years I’ve had a handful of cameras. When the kids were born we moved into the digital world with a little 3 MP Kodak point and shoot camera. It took great pictures and I took thousands of them. When the kids were toddlers, I realized how many photos I was missing because of the slow response of the camera. It was then that I moved to a Digital SLR. I started with a Canon Digital Rebel, moved to a Canon 30D and now shoot with a Canon 5D. Here’s more on my current rig.
I shoot RAW and process my photos in Aperture 2. In the early days I use to do most of my correction with Photoshop, but since moving to Aperture, I can’t tell you the last time I’ve used Photoshop. Aperture is simple, fast, convenient and easy to use. I use it for all of my processing. The edits are non-destructive and I use the vault feature for my back-ups.
Why do I love the Canon 5D?
• It has a 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor,
• A beautiful 3 in. LCD TFT monitor,
• It’s fast, shooting up to 3.9 fps,
• It supports an ISO Range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO 25600),
• It offers Live View shooting,
• It can shoot HD video.
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens
This is my primary lens and is image stabilized, which gives me another stop or two in low light environments. I probably shoot 98% of everything with this lens. It’s very versatile.
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens
When I need to “reach out and touch” a subject, I use this telephoto lens. It is more than twice the length of my “everyday” lens.
EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro Lens
I use this prime lens for macro and portrait work.
This is my flash or choice as it offers a lot of flexibility
SanDisk 16GB Extreme IV UDMA CompactFlash Card
This card allows me to shoot 1080 HD video from the camera
Lexar Professional UDMA Firewire 800 CF Reader
This reader supports data transfer rates of up to 800Mb/sec via Firewire 800, which comes in handy when your files are 21 MB each.
Now, if I could only get the optics of the 5D into my iPhone my dream for a digital SLR iPhone could be fulfilled!
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