Art without the extra weight

The Keys to Happiness 011625 I played with the camera on my newer phone yesterday while sitting on my porch reading photography magazines. I have to say, even though the lenses still don't give the quality of high end camera equipment, and keeping in mind I only have the two-lens version of an iPhone, not the pricier models that actually have three lenses, and I have not tried it at night, I'm kind of blown away. Taking macro (closeup) images is always a chore with a regular camera. Depending on how much you want the background to blur and how much of the actual subject you want in focus, it takes a lot of fiddling. Beach Party 011425 With this phone, I can lock the focus on one particular spot after choosing the actual aperture setting without a lot of jumping through hoops. I just moved up from an iPhone SE 2020 to an iPhone 16 and the improvements they've made are astounding. I know the Samsung phones (my daughter has one of those) make really high quality images as we...