Today’s smartphones are featuring high-end camera lenses and making a try to beat the dedicated digital cameras. Take a look 10 years back, the digital cameras are considered to be “must have” gadgets for everyone. Now everyone thinks about a camera phone first and then about a digital camera. Still the manufacturers are launching better digicams with fashionable designs and next-gen features.
The war between camera phone and digital camera started with Apple Videophone-cum-PDA in 1995. Few companies like Olympus and Kodak earlier launched digital camera with cellular capabilities in 1990s.
If you talk about the point-and-shoot digital cameras then they are one of the easiest gadgets on the earth to operate. Whereas, the smartphones or camera phones usually have a lens on the back or front with a camera app for shooting. Yes, you will be benefited with cellular services, smart applications, and other things in addition to the expected camera if you buy a smartphone or camera phone. However, it is not so easy to operate the camera on few phones.
The addition of dedicated camera key or shutter key on smartphones has brought a new easy way to shoot. But still most of their users are still unaware about the options buried in menus and tool options like how to reduce the red eye, how to turn off flash etc.
The smartphones like Sony Ericsson CyberShot 12MP, Samsung Pixon 12, and Nokia N8 features 12MP camera for better image quality. In 2008, Sony Corp. announced first the backside illuminated CMOS image sensors in their digital cameras. OmniVision continues to develop the backside illumination technology for smartphones. The companies like Apple and HTC followed this latest technology. Apple launched the iPhone 4 and HTC come up with EVO 4G featuring BSI sensors.
Even with the latest technologies and more mega-pixels, the camera phones still lies behind the digital cameras in terms of user controls and other options. The high-end digital cameras provide better automatic and manual controls for shooting. Few cameras like Nikon CoolPix S8100 features 1080p full high-def video recording, Canon PowerShot SD4500 IS features 10x zoom, and Casio EX-H20G highlights GPS. If you remember Nikon COOLPIX S100pj then it has inbuilt projector to highlight your captured stills.
The price tag of a smartphone or digital camera can be some, but you have to decide what you want. We will advise you to compare the features of selected devices before making any decision. For fans of digital photography – a dedicated high-end digital camera is always preferred first over a smartphone with more mega-pixels.
