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Carrying a point-and-shoot camera

Carrying a point-and-shoot camera

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Carrying a point-and-shoot camera

- Hi, I'm Ben Long and if you've watched my iPhone 5S photography course, you know that I take the camera in this phone pretty seriously. It is a great photographic tool. This week on the Practicing Photographer though, we're going to look at the point and shoot camera. If this is such a great camera and I've always got it with me, why are point and shoots still relevant at all? Well, depending on your photographic needs they may not be. Now, I have I don't know how many SLR's and mirror-less cameras and what not. I have a lot of nice, big high end cameras that I really enjoy and that are also excellent photographic tools but there are times when they are just too big and the smaller size of a point and shoot is really valuable, but then there is my phone. The thing is, for certain applications, a point and shoot is still better than a phone for a number of different reasons. Point and shoot cameras typically have larger sensors than a cell phone camera does. The larger sensor means…

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