iPhone photos can be effortlessly transferred to a Mac via Airdrop. Very convenient.
In the past I’ve used a lesser phone to document ideas I may later want to pursue as newspaper or magazine articles, usually with the intention of shooting with a camera subsequently. A few phone pics have made it into print because they were there when needed. I will probably use the 12 professionally on occasion. But its lack of long lens capability is limiting. However, it’s just what I need for family pics and social events. Paul > On Feb 20, 2021, at 3:59 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Feb 20, 2021, at 12:24 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The thing about cell phone photos is I don't know any way to get them onto >> my computer other than sending them to myself vial email. > > For android to mac there is Android file transfer, which is a glorious pain > in the ass to get it to actually connect. It’s as if both Android and Apple > want to say that it can be done, but they both go out of their way to make it > difficult. > > There is also an Android App Wifi File Explorer which allows you to point a > browser to your android’s file system and download files over wifi. It has > issues, but it works, and I expect it will work with any OS. > >> >> Which is adequate for the limited use I make of the cell phone camera. >> >> I'm sort of the inverse ... If you can photograph it with a proper camera >> why use the phone? > > I basically use my camera for photography and my cell phone for > documentation. I have a Pixel 3 which is supposed to have one of the best > phone cameras available, I just don’t like the feel of the images. Their > automatic processing to jpeg doesn’t please me, and the raw files are too > brittle to get what I like. I probably have a few photos from the phone that > don’t suck, I’ve just never expended the effort to process them. > > An ongoing wish among many is to apply the computational photography thrown > at phone sensors to camera sensors. > >> >> You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself. >> > > The funny thing about my photography is that there are a fair number of > people who are much more pleased by my photos than I am, so I often don’t > worry overmuch whether I would like it, I just try to get something the > person I’m taking the photo for would like. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
