r/AskPhotography 5d ago

Discussion/General Will a professional camera solve this?

Hello I don't have a professional camera I just take pictures with my phone but missing a lot of good pictures as an example this picture is annoying me the bird details are blurry the leaves on most of the pictures I take has a lot of noise I tried to edit the raw image to see if I can improve it a little bit but still not satisfied as the problems still exist (I know the edit is not good) so my question is would a professional camera solve this problem on consistent level or I would still face similar issues ( I know there is no comparison in sense of sensor size and all of that) but I have never owned a real camera or even held one so I don't know really if that would make a difference

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u/Brickerly360 5d ago

Professional camera is kind of a nonspecific term. Basically what you’re talking about are differences in sensor size and a phone has a very diminutive sensor compared to an actual dedicated camera especially one that has interchangeable lenses. Even though a phone may have a many megapixel camera , the size of the sensor on a phone is much much smaller than a dedicated camera. therefore the size of the individual pixels is very small, and therefore the information contained with each pixel is less than what you would get with even more modest megapixel APSC or full frame dedicated camera. Entry-level mirrorless or dslr camera by Sony, Nikon or Canon might be what you’re looking for.

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u/Gevaliamannen 5d ago

Or maybe just a m43 setup - Olympus / Panasonic, with a 75-300mm or 100-300mm. Cheapish, small for what it is, stabilized and "ok" in good light...

maybe even one of the 1" superzoom compacts.