Smartphone Editing versus Big Screen Editing AND Focus on Photography, or elsewhere

[Greyswan]

Yeah those vertical videos... the most irritating thing!

 

[Skygod44]

@Joedlh

I'm JOMO.

I'm 45% JOMO, 5% FOMO, and 50% BIOYA. ( <- that last one applies to a lot of things and people, but thankfully, not applicable to FoPF )

...//...Perhaps my brain produces enough dopamine to keep me high.

Interestingly, despite me being a paraglider pilot, I'm the same.
I don't seem to need to "get high", and never have.

I have a smartphone, but I view it as a necessary evil.

I for one, 100% agree with you on this.
I tried to get rid of mine two years ago, but I have audio tracks downloaded for teaching purposes ( + a lot more, for work purposes), so I make my smartphone do its job, and not much else.
Having said that, taking photos wasn't really part of this thread's aim.

...//... I print or display photos large. So I think I'll miss something if I edit on a tiny screen.

Isn't this "FOMO"?

Plus the tiny lens and sensor of a smartphone have some optical characteristics that do not please me.

Agreed.
Google translate via my smartphone camera is a godsend for me, because I'm too old to memorise enough Japanese kanji characters.
But I think as a camera that's always portable, many dSLR or Canon/Nikon FF users are grateful for the size of a smartphone.
Me? I used to shoot Nikon film, then Canon EOS, but a wrist injury meant lightening my load or giving up photography...
...so I moved to Olympus micro 4/3, easily carry a camera + 4 lenses everywhere, and have no regrets because it's such a portable system.

Talking about things that drive you nuts. I can't stand it when there's something on the news that clearly calls for a landscape format and all they could get were vertical shots taken by numbnuts holding their phones aloft.

Absolutely right.

Thanks for joining in the chat.
Simon

 

[BigAl]

I'd never consider editing photographs using my smart phone. I do use my phone to capture photos quite often though, sometimes even when I'm out doing "serious" photography with my DSLRs. The thing is that even on the phone I'm shooting in RAW and loading the images into LrC on my PC so that I can edit them with the benefit of a 27" monitor. I actually quite often use the phone to do a quick and dirty stiched pano, but the stiching is always done using the DNG files in LrC.

A couple of stiched panos of sunsets taken with my Samsung S21, the first one is a full 180° wide.

 

[Greyswan]

I'd never consider editing photographs using my smart phone. I do use my phone to capture photos quite often though, sometimes even when I'm out doing "serious" photography with my DSLRs. The thing is that even on the phone I'm shooting in RAW and loading the images into LrC on my PC so that I can edit them with the benefit of a 27" monitor. I actually quite often use the phone to do a quick and dirty stiched pano, but the stiching is always done using the DNG files in LrC.

A couple of stiched panos of sunsets taken with my Samsung S21, the first one is a full 180° wide.
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Those are nice.
One use I DO have for the smartphone is for panorama videos, I do like taking B roll on the phone, as I usually edit it for background interest on a main subject, so the quality isn't really paramount. The motion graphics I make are, oddly enough, for cell phones!