Sunday, February 22, 2015

Era of Smartphone Photography in India

Era of SmartPhone Photography in India 

Now this a new Era of Smartphone photography in India. Five years ago it was it was quite difficult to see people with smartphones as now we see very frequently. In India the trend of smart phone photography was started when the phone came up with cameras like 2mp . No doubt Nokia was the one to bring good quality camera's in its N-Series phones and E-series phone. But due to the high cost of those phones smartphone photography was not present in the masses.

Factors responsible for Smartphone Photography revolution - 

1)Evolution of Android Phones move-instagram-photos-to-flickrEarlier when phones used to come with basic soft-wares. The relevance of mobile camera phones was not much. But due to Android phones came the era of google play store which started providing amazing photography based social networking apps for free like instagram and flicker  , there are many more but these are leading the market

2)Smartphones compatibility with internet  Android-Smartphone-Compatible_logo_300x122Now the smartphones are better compatible with the internet and now can run faster than the first generation reportedly said smartphones , most popular in India were nokia's classic series or E-series and the epic of first gen smart phones like N- series.These old phones were running on Symbian-s40 oe s60. These phones were not as compatible as of modern day Android , windows or ios phone.Modern phones are so compatible with operators that they are able to connect and run the apps with 2g very well
3)Improved connectivity in India - cell-phoneearlier India was has both problems due to high price and monopolistic market of Nokia Inc. and low connectivity in rural and suburban areas were showing synergistic effect and the smartphone photography was not able to take any leap. But the time changed a optimistic lap and now the smartphones who can run internet and apps efficiently are as cheap as           ₹ 2000 ($40)(mozillafire-1 based mobiles) and there are wide range of operators where Tata-Docomo is providing 2g internet for cheap and on the other hand ,operators like Airtel , Idea and Vodafone are providing smart phone friendly network. Not only this now India is one of the best countries having most improved coverage.
4)Better quality of photos than low edge point and shoot cameras - The quality of photos are equivalent or even better in case of smartphones now no one want to invest even ₹ 3000($50)camera-smartphone-vert for a basic point and shoot. People think and right they think , if they will buy a smartphone by an Indian manufacturer like Micromax or Karbon they can get a 8mp camera phone for even less than   ₹ 7000($115) and they have better editing software and apps. So this is a reason lower edge point and shoot manufacture are getting a major jolt .  companies like Kodak and Olympus are almost ex-tinted from market . Kodak withdrawn from the camera manufacturing .
5)Simplicity of Using - Smart phone cameras are pretty simple to operate , no professional expertise is needed that also adds in the smart phone photography very efficiently.Like any time you got a random subject and want to click this , then you can simply click the pic. WP_20140308_036You are not supposed to hold messy big and heavy DSLRs for even the subjects you just to want click simply. like in the picture below , there is nothing interesting but it looks good as the subject and framing was sufficient to be clicked simply there was no need to anything in that.
6)Instant Sharing and Status Updates make it just better -Screenshot_2014-11-15-05-53-44 One can instantly Upload any pic and can  share iScreenshot_2014-11-15-05-54-30t to almost all major photoblogging sites including facebook , tumler , twitter and many more. Specially like this is the natural flow how you are going to do things ->You went for a bike ride ->You saw a scenic place -> you clicked a pic -> you uploaded the pic with little editing -> Bravo you did it perfectly . So see , its simple and better all these features unite and make the smart phone photography just better. Almost all platforms instagram , facebook (normal and facebook page manager ) , picasa , flicker and twitter provide such uploading and sharing on all platforms at one place facility.
* conclusion - with a good smart phone with a decent camera , one can create interest in photography by randomly snaping some good shots and share it on sites like insta or fb. The people will automatically  will let you know that you are a good photographer or a bad photographer . by the way nothing in this world is like a good or bad photographer .

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