What Appraisal Camera Do You Recommend?

[Joe Flacco]

That's fine if you disagree.

 

[nauthead]

Phone and tablet cameras are just as good as most cameras now. I took these a few days ago to what kind of difference there is with the devices I have.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

For appraisal work I would agree that

and tablet cameras are just as good as most cameras now

...but they rarely have the same wide angle convenience of a zoom lens on an SLR and the quality of top SLRs is much better because they have zoned light metering, and internal adjustments that are impossible with a phone. Further, RAW images can be adjusted even further with the right software, so for professional quality in your photos, phones are a no-go.

 

[nauthead]

You can get wide angle adapters for cameras. I have the Ollo Clip for my Iphone.

 

[JTip]

I took this comp photo today with an S5 doing 45 mph.

*click*

 

[Joe Flacco]

That takes some skills. Sounds dangerous.

 

[JTip]

That takes some skills. Sounds dangerous.

That's why we make the big bucks. lol

I had the new guy driving (I'm the passenger). He insisted I roll down the window (it was 30 today down there). Simmer son, finger off the window switch, let the photo master work.....

Did have a slight swale blur in the pic but the improvement is crisp, so crisp you can count shingles.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Watch out for the chipmunks...

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

nauthead, regarding the question in your signature line, the answer is "crazy"...

 

[Pat Butler]

The biggest difference with camera phones versus a true camera is the size of the lens. A 1/4" camera-phone lens will never have the same quality as a larger lens unless it's made by NASA.

Number of pixels rarely matters nowadays when the small lens can't even resolve detail down to that level.