Re: Mobile Phone Camera
Since a newbie brought this to the top of the list, I thought I'd comment.
I'm presently in the wilds of southern Africa and only brought my cell phone, my tablet, and my new Surface Pro 4. As most of you have pointed out, the cell phones now take good quality photos and videos, but as Paul noted, short on controls. Walking around here taking photos and videos is less obvious than using my DSRL or video camera would be, but in some cases, my optical zoom lenses would help. My wife's cell does 4k (not with me), which gets even better quality than mine.
As most of my photos end up in videos, I can use either Xara (with Paint Shop Pro at home) or Video Pro X (Magix) to improve the quality. As Rik noted, there is a lot of detail in the shadows. I use the HDR Gamma feature or Gamma Low in VPX to boost the shadows. Worked great until Magix broke HDR in the latest patch. I wandered around at dusk last evening taking photos and I am always amazed at the low light capabilities of these cameras. But to top it off, photos on the cell phone, at least on mine, have geo-coordinates embedded in them. Movie Edit Pro and VPX have an app called Travel Route Animation. Just put 2 of these photos side by side on the timeline, open the app, and the map is opened, zoomed in to where you are in the world, with pins for the locations of the 2 photos and a line between them. Then add in intermediate points for the route taken, optional icon for means of travel, export animation and it shows up on the timeline between the two photos. I just discovered this photo geo-coordinate feature. An alternative is to export the map image with the pins and line, open it in Xara and add the images. Fun stuff!
I have Xara DPX365, Video Pro X8, MusicMaker, Samplitude Pro X3 Suite on my Surface Pro, so I can create videos in my spare time, and post them for family and friends.
Nice photo Rik.
John CB
Xara DPX(19.0.1.65946)
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