Are phones better than cameras? (in a canoe)

you cant stop humans from seeing something amazing then repeatedly trying to copy that thing to the point the original thing loses all its shine.
even if this was green screed the one thing that i'm finding hard to believe is you made this video in one take ! . now that is talent.

I sincerely enjoyed this video. I found it after searching for a Fuji X-H2s camera vid (I bought my first and deep diving as much as I can to learn quickly). I'm jumping into the content creation pool - sports, well, more specifically softball to start. I've continued to come back to the same question. What will be my voice? What will be my brand? You've given me much to consider, with more confidence of me. Thank you.

First time I've heard the term j-stroke (besides coming from myself) since my summer camp days and was beginning to wonder whether with our quickly evolving language and terminology, it is still being used. It is a stroke that I show my sons, along with the sweep stroke and power stroke.

Luv how you reference BTO and "You ain't seen nothing yet." Fun !

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I'm wondering where I can buy one of those amazing non-wettable paddles/oars . . . great discussion, thank you.

Utterly delightful! Loved this.

I just ran across your channel and your are AMAZING! I'm curious what your background is that you can do a 13 minute monologue while rowing a canoe and maintain eye contact, stay on point and never lose focus. Actor? Anchorman? Pastor? Teacher? Corporate Presenter? I hypothesize somewhere in your life you've had a great deal of experience in one of these and I'm happy you have found a way to share your talents with others. Keep posting Maarten, keep posting!

You made my confusion more stronger as I am at the cross roads of buying a DSLR or same budget Mobile phone. 😛

I respect your point of view but allow me to disagree with the comparison at least for the quality of the sensors and lenses not to mention the RAW compared with the phone's JPG...

Wow! I'm really really enjoying to know this channel. I just discovered it, and I'm love it!

What a brilliant video! I feel like I am having a casual conversation with a mate whilst idling about a lazy afternoon in that lake. I felt like you involve me and talking to me as a companion in your canoe. Love this..thank you my friend ❤

Thank you for your insights !!!

If I wish to make phone calls, phones are better than cameras.
If I wish to take pictures, real cameras are better than phonys.

Are phones better than cameras? 
Is fast food better than food?

i find your thoughts to be complimentary to mine ... verification! is , no matter how infrequent, a brick "out" of the wall of Babel. And the population at large at the edge of a grand canyon of new and ever distorted (processed) technical evolution find themselves somehow more and more apart from the grisle and blood and bone we are are assembled of. Oh and i enjoyed the whole atmosphere of human senses incited by a canoe trip.

Hello Maarten, I agree with you that technically cameras and photography are constantly changing and that smart developers and companies ensure that our photos look better and more beautiful, ... however, those companies cannot do one thing and that is storytelling. If you as a photographer are not able to take catchy, beautiful, sad, exciting photos that viewers like to look at, all those techniques are of no use at all. So nothing ever changes on the most important points of image making, namely composition, point of view and storytelling. You know. Rembrandt van Rijn was able to make a catchy drawing with a straw dipped in poo. :)

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I mean if this is a fake, than it is a damn good one. Espacialy the changing Illumination of your face would have been a hard piece of work to do if it is really a fake. As for the cameras, I personaly think, that cameras are going to evolve into more specialized working devices which are orientated towards customers, that are actually earning their living with photography, wildlife-photographers for example, at least for the near Future. In terms of the long range Evolution of cameras, maybe they will lose against more compact and user-friendlier devices like Smartphones or, on the other Hand, both will lose against something completly diffrent. Who knows? We live in some cracy times^^ But for now, I'm going to have lots of fun with my d5600.
P.S.: Happy new year and I like your Videos.

Wow, this was unfathomably good. The patter, the content, the insight and the execution - all quite masterful.

It’s so easy to take a photo with a phone compared with a camera (holding it up and framing) and with all the processing produces a pleasing image instead of having to post process to restore a lifeless raw image.

fujifilm are working on a bigger processor to handle AI technology in their next cameras

All in one take. Bravo, sir!

I do possess Pixel 4 and it really is mind-blowing, what it does. Though I can't really agree with the point that AI photography progresses faster than professional photografy. Both smartphones and cameras are in fact modern PC's with the primary function to make photos (and videos). And those PCs (CPUs, memory, etc) improve and progress each and every year in a proportional pace in all devices... And AI algorythms are very much in use in professional cameras, just like it is in smartphones. I guess, it just pursues a little bit different goals. My bet is that in a couple of decades when google introduces Pixel 25 with super AI sharpening, crazy noice reduction and giga-HDR, sony at the same time will introduce its a7s-25 shooting 64K 128bit in-camera RAW video with 250 stops of dynamic range allowing you to do smt like rendering stars in a daylight sky.

This guy is Awesome, love the wit, and the knowledge! Kuods

Your videos are better than both!

Appreciated

What’s truly amazing about this review is how it was all shot with one take without editing and no fumbling and rambling.

The first time I shot "night mode", hand held an hour after sunset on my new Pixel 3A, I laughed out loud at what I saw on the screen. Computational photography is revolutionizing photography. For the better! My pal has a Huawei phone. He was attempting to photograph his dog, when he showed me the preview image on the phone, before he'd shot anything. At the bottom of the screen, like on a lower third, it said "Dog". !!! The camera's AI knew what he was shooting! Speaking as someone who shot movies for decades (in Vancouver), I add my congratulations on your flawless, apparently uninterrupted, nearly 14 minute take.

I shoot on my phone a lot and I find it gives me great quality. As someone who doesn't print much, and work doesn't really go past a monitor, I find it yo be good quality. With the Note 10+ I get a great ability to control exposure, and even aperture! I find myself posting more and more with images from my phone and I have received a good response. If you'd like to see my page its @emmanuel_lopez. Not trying to make it into a plug but trying to show what I'm talking about.

Thank you for your insights.
This aging practitioner was a recording engineer before I became a photographer,
and the one parallel of the two technologies that became immediately apparent is that between microphones and camera lenses. It all happens right where the sound hits that diaphragm, or where the light hits that lens.
In spite of the massive transformation of the audio industry to a digital based format that wiped out tape recorders, microphones are still just as important to the process as they always were, and any engineer worth his salt knows that you've got to know how to use those mics correctly to get a good sound on difficult instruments, like drums, or piano. I look at being a photographer a bit like that with lenses,
and until a cell phone can match that experience then I'll be using a camera.

Here I am, a new viewer directed here by Maarten's response to a comment I posted elsewhere. I feel like I've gained a new mentor watching this. Excellent video!

Interesting paradox of photo channels is predominantly they are video, when commentary could be conveyed with voice over still images, not moving, and with figures and numbers and little on composition or lighting...but then cameras are a passage of life that many young predominantly males pass through.
We live in a moving world still images don't "hit the spot" as moving ones do
Form and Function saves Time and Trouble to that end the mobile phone.
Mobile phone camera photo...Perhaps Maarten you could have added Full colour editing and cropping "inphone" and then shared immediately without any need of computer.
The phone has evolved with a camera Not the camera with a phone although they were on earth first

Awesome! I am still fighting with the synchronization of the audio track and the image of my simple videos, and you are able to recreate a canoe ride with the shovels adjusted to the water splash! My congratulations on your channel, and greetings from Spain.

Very thought provoking and perceptive video essay, particularly on the role and expectations of photographs, and what they may be in the brave new world of the near present and future. Of course, photographs have rarely been a completely 'pure' recreation of a reality, there has always been some sort of manipulation in the dark room or the camera, but in the past it was expected to be a more or less accurate depiction of the subject. I agree with you, some of the phone cameras now are almost mind blowing (especially when compared to the cheap snapshot cameras I knew as a kid in the '70s/ '80s), but the computer processor is sometimes creating an image of something that never existed on Earth. And completely independent of the photographer. (or 'photographer') Not always the most comfortable concept to contemplate.


Thanks for the canoeing tips as well. Really enjoyable video.

I love Canoe Talk episodes! Thank you! :)

Fun and insightful technology perspective on cameas and canoeing. How did I miss this in Sept/Oct. I was waiting and expecting you to show us the camera phone you were shooting this video with....in the end no luck :)

any time phone getter better also the camera getter better

Fantastic video, great job!

Heads up, they have perfected holograms. An article today states you can see touch and smell them.

What happened to the music industry is now happening to photography. Digital signal processing is changing things faster than we can handle.

For me, a recent: Google pixel 4 is better than my Sony a7iii + Zeiss ... In auto mode. The images just look better every time...can one replace the other no, but the color balance is better....it just is.

Digital Image capturing is the best term.

Firstly thank you for this video.