is that true iphone camera is good enough to take photos?

[B K]

No it's not true for good photography, but probably good enough for snaps and posting on social media sites.

However, all phone cameras are basically total crap - including those on all of Apple's mobile devices, all Android phones, and tablets and such devices

The problem with all phones is that the sensor is tiny, plus there is no optical zoom, and you are stuck with a wide angle lens. This will never improve, because phones and such are small devices, and the parts of the camera are miniaturised to find inside the device casing. The quality problems of using tiny sensors and inferior optics is particularly noticeable when you have to enlarge the photos, and quite frankly the images are not even good enough quality for even small prints. The results are noticeably fuzzy, and not sharp, in comparison to proper photographs taken with a proper camera.

There is no comparison between any phone camera and a DSLR. Phone camera photography is thriving only because lots of people have phones with cameras - it doesn't say anything about the quality of the images. Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's any good.

Sure having a camera on a phone is a handy thing when you find yourself without a proper camera, but it can never and will never be a substitute for a real camera.

You don't even have to spend that much money to get something way better than any smart phone camera. Many cheap modern point and shoot cameras have larger sensors and optical zoom. $100 or so should be enough to get you a point and shoot camera that is much more versatile than any phone camera could ever be. Of course there are phones such as the Samsung S4 Zoom http://www.simplyelectronics.net/showpro...?pid=22628 which is kind of like a hybrid between a phone and a camera. However, as you can see, it's not exactly small. I'd say more camera than phone!

By the way, these days you can pick up a brand new entry level DSLR for about the same price as an iPhone.