it’s still surprising no one made a DSLR smartphone.
the usecases for high quality lenses combined with a high power network connected computer are only limited by imagination.
Samsung made the NX series. Some had built in phone functionality. But after that samsung quit the entire camera branch
I’m not. Camera hardware lasts significantly longer than phone hardware.
Sony seems to have a decent idea by providing a decent way for their cameras to interact with phones and computers, but I can’t imagine marrying the two.
I don’t see the issue. if you have a collection of lenses and equipment, and you feel the need to update the phone/camera, you can do so.
But the issue is that the phone and camera would need to be updated together. A large cost to the camera is the sensor and it doesn’t need to be updated at the cadence of the rest of the phone.
Crazy idea… keep updating the phone for more than a mere 3 years.
By the time that phones were good enough not to upgrade every two years, cameras in phones were good enough for most consumers.
Phones been ‘good’ enough for 15 years. Long before their cameras caught up. They just made new phones harder to fix so your forced to ‘upgrade’ or disable networks that bricked many.
Having used phones 15 years ago, it wasn’t. There may be some cases where a phone could live on longer, but two years was generally a decent cadence to buy a new phone.
Once you get to the 5-10 year mark, cameras on phones were generally good enough for most users.
pull a fair phone and make the sensor easily replaceable/upgradable. so you can get a new phone, without getting another sensor.
definitely in the more proficient and not for everyone.
Phones have become less modular, not more.
I know, that trend should be reversed, a1200$ high quality DSLR phone compatible with a major lens standard, with a modular sensor would be a good deal though.
Let me dream man, not like I can afford it anyways
Without the lens, the camera still costs a lot of money and a lot of that is due to the sensor and the image processing which comes from that.
Didn’t LG or Samsung make one way back in the day? It may have been someone else but I remember such a phone existing.
i think it was more like a sonic cybershot, rather than a DSLR with exchangeable lenses
Motorola had a modular series of phones with ‘Moto Mods’, one of which was a Hasselblad camera, not sure if that’s what you’re thinking of?
No it definitely wasn’t Motorola, I don’t even know that one came out in my place. It was most likely Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. I don’t know if it was DSLR but it had a professional looking camera, looking back it was way ahead of it’s time.
There were several cameras in the NX series. Some compact, some with changeable lenses. They were honestly pretty good products but samsung completely quit the camera branch shortly after.
Just looked that up, wasn’t aware of it at the time, but very interesting idea! And unique design!
Nice
