Category Archives: Smartphone Cameras

Best Compact Point-and-Shoot Cameras 2013

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By Tom’s Guide Staff,Daniel Grotta 

If you’re like many people, the convenient, always-available camera embedded in your iPhone, Galaxy S4 or favorite brand of smartphone is the only device you ever need to snap and share photos with friends and family. So why would you consider buying a stand-alone compact camera when your smartphone does it all?

Because, photographically speaking, smartphones don’t do it all. For instance, most phones don’t come equipped with optical-zoom lenses, so they’re useless if you’re shooting hungry lions or just your kids playing soccer or baseball. Also, good point-and-shoots will also easily beat most smartphones in low light, whether you’re shooting with or without a flash. These four point-and-shoot cameras take your photography a notch above smartphone cameras while still being easily pocketable.

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How to turn your smartphone into a spy camera or baby monitor

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By Joshua Sherman  —   

If you’re getting that paranoid itch to keep an eye on someone (or someplace), but only have a limited budget, fear not. We’re in the second decade of the 21st century. You don’t need to buy a bunch of expensive equipment to spy anymore. These days, all you need is an old smartphone. With a few bucks, an old Android device or iPhone, a charger, and some tape or a tripod for mounting, you can monitor whatever you want. Here’s how to do it.

Note: Before beginning, you must be using a wireless network that is secure and password protected. Setting this up on an unprotected network will allow anyone on that network to see through your cameras! This guide also comes with no warranty and is not intended to be a secure security system that guarantees safety – if you want something like that, get a professional security solution.

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Decline of the Point and Shoot, Rise of the Smartphone Camera

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June 10, 2013 by Juliana Payson in Camera (http://www.gadgetreview.com)

The emergence of Smartphone camera accessories is a major indicator for where photography is heading. That is to say that the Smartphone has to a large degree replaced the standalone digital point and shoot camera.

What consumers are concerned with now, is the footprint of their Smartphone and their associated accessories while placed in their pocket. Moreover, since it is the single most portable intelligent device the majority of us carry around, the Smartphone has become a hotbed of ingenuity for customizations, plugins, and app development all to customize your personal imaging device and thus further propelling the death of the point and shoot.

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Can a smartphone replace your point-and-shoot?

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June 6, 2013 (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

We’ve already rounded up the top smartphone cameras, but are they good enough to replace your point-and-shoot digital camera? Jenneth Orantia finds out.

A couple of years ago, Olympus’ digital imaging unit set up a guerilla ad campaign specifically to trash talk smartphone cameras. Among the zingers it included as slogans were, “If your camera also sends text messages, that will explain why your photos are rubbish”, and “A camera phone is to photography what two-minute noodles are to cooking”.

A phone isn’t a camera – it’s a device that does multiple things.

John Young, Nikon

Olympus even went so far as to register the getarealcamera.com domain name, which redirected back to the company’s main website.

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