You can see this in the comparison photos below. The lens’s image quality is excellent overall, except that the left and right edges of shots are frequently blurred. While it’s obviously not enough for every situation, there have been many times when shifting to the telephoto lens has brought my desired subject front and center. There’s good news on that front, though: even a 2x zoom can make a big difference. At only 2x magnification, I wasn’t sure it would be worth the trouble. In truth, I was even initially concerned about the value of the telephoto lens. None of this was possible with my point-and-shoot. And, via Apple’s Photo Stream, my photos were instantly accessible from all of my other Apple devices. Plus, with the iPhone, I could easily edit photos on the fly and post them to the Internet. The answer was “not quite-but almost.” The following year, with the arrival of the iPhone 5, that answer became a definitive “yes.” The quality of the iPhone’s photos was now so good that it no longer seemed worth carrying an extra device. Back in 2012, I wrote an article asking whether the iPhone 4s’s camera was good enough to replace my point-and-shoot. For everything else, the iPhone camera’s image quality was simply too poor for it to be my preferred choice.īut with the iPhone 4s, the balance began to shift. Or when I didn’t have my Canon with me and had no alternative. I used it only for occasional situations where all I cared about was having a record of the content (such as taking a picture of a sign in a store). For those tasks, a point-and-shoot proved to be more than adequate-and much more convenient to carry around than the SLR and camcorder.Īnd that’s where things stood for several years-until I got an iPhone.įor the iPhone’s first several iterations, my habits didn’t really change my iPhone’s camera mostly sat idle. At the time I was mainly taking “memory shots” of family, friends, special occasions, and places I visited. It wasn’t primarily the digital technology that prompted the switch, rather that my photographic aspirations had become more modest over the years. It had a 5x zoom and could take both stills and HD video.
When digital cameras arrived, I traded in all my equipment for a good Canon point-and-shoot camera. Looking back, I can no longer imagine how (or even why) I carted all that stuff around, other than there being little in the way of alternatives if you wanted to capture those moments of your life.
For a time, I even owned a separate video camera, dating back to those VHS behemoths that required you rest the camera on your shoulder. When traveling, I stuffed all this equipment into a canvas camera bag. There was a time when I owned an Olympus 35mm SLR, complete with several lenses, filters, a flash, a tripod, and more. Before I tell you the results, allow me to back up a bit. I had the chance to determine my answer when Olloclip offered me a set of their lenses to review. There is no single answer to this question: It varies, depending upon your photographic demands and tolerance for added inconvenience. External lenses can let your iPhone get shots it otherwise couldn’t take, but they come with trade-offs.
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