The Smartphone Advantage
Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography. An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.
Few gadgets have affected our lives as profoundly as the smartphone. In a way, it fundamentally altered the way we live. Volumes can perhaps be written on this subject. The influence of smartphones on photography too is well known. If the invention of the roll film more than a hundred years ago brought photography to the masses, cameras in smartphones democratised photography like never before.
While a smartphone can take good quality pictures by itself using advanced computational photographic technology, it can also play a role in picture taking even when you are using an ILC (interchangeable lens
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