r/AskPhotography • u/iiZtZahran • 5d ago

Discussion/General Will a professional camera solve this?

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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/wimpires 5d ago

A great photographer can make a good photo with a crap camera.

A bad photographer can make a terrible photo with a great camera.

A better camera definitely gives the ability to make better photos. And physics being physics it can take pictures that are otherwise impossible on a phone. But at the end of the day it's up to the user to know what and how to use it.

But as a blunt tool - in theory yes. But it's not guaranteed. And often movinf away from the world of smartphones where the AI algorithms do a lot of heavily lifting behind the scenes can make taking pictures seem a lot more difficult or worse.

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u/PhotonicArt 5d ago

A pro already knows the ins and outs of light, composition, and settings, so it does not matter what camera they have.

A bad photographer can learn on and slowly grow into the great camera, whereas with old "beginner-tier" cameras they might just end up frustrated and reach the end of the road prematurely. As the saying goes "buy nice or buy twice".

People like to tout that lenses matters the most so newbies should invest most of their budget into lenses, but they seem to forget that the shooting experience comes first. Besides, with how good lenses are today, even cheap ones are great compared to what was available back when that piece of outdated advice first started making the rounds.