DocAndersen
There are two things I love about my point and shoot camera. First, it does a better job than my cellular phone when taking pictures. I can see the difference in pictures taken by the two cameras. My point and shoot is an Olympus TG-5 camera. The reason I am bringing that up is that my Olympus Point and Shoot can go many places and do quite a few things that my cellular phone cannot do. The easy button answer here is dropping the two in water. At a foot, my phone is probably ok. At two feet my iPhone is in trouble. The Olympus can drop another 20 feet beyond that before there are potential issues.
The other thing is both being dropped (cell phones do not like that) and shock resistance. One of the slight sift to the right changes the 365-Day photo challenge has done for me, is move me off the Cell pictures are bad bandwagon. I am still not convinced that Cell phones are the only answer. There are always improvements in both the cell and point and shoot camera market. The Technology continues to improve and advance. The abilities you can add as well are amazing.
For example, with the Olympus Underwater case, you can take your TG-5 to nearly 300 feet underwater. We’ve used the cameras underwater in some places over the years. We’ve managed to drop the Olympus many times. I’ve dropped my cell phone as well but far fewer times. Twice, I ended up replacing the 100 dollar screen so, dropping the cell phone remains not as good an idea. But, the number of things that are advantage point and shoot have declined. Cell phones are, however, better than they were and continue to improve!
Wonderful review/comparison. The underwater cases sound very interesting, but I am not sure how much I can trust them. 😀 As for me, I always prefer the phone camera, I only use my point and shoot camera to zoom in objects. Maybe I should put more effort into learning about the different settings.
I am always finding out something else my point and shoot can do. I found out on Saturday that it has night mode for pictures as the sun is setting!
That’s awesome! I just love the convenience of the phone camera. I am not satisfied that I can’t manually focus the object I want with the point and shoot camera. Or maybe there is a way to do it?
manual focus is possible with an add-on but they are expensive.
Ah, good points here Doc. I have seen those underwater cases too. I was wondering if they worked well my daughter inlaw was wanting one for her Canon T..something..
I use mine on occasion. They work very well, but the deeper you go the more lighting you need, the camera just doesn’t have the umph light wise (well the Olympus doesn’t).