[REQUEST] Recommend a Camera

[Appletax]

I am so sick and tired of lousy cell phone pics. I have an iPhone 13 Pro and the picture quality sucks.

Only takes decent pictures with gobs of light. Too often photos are blurry and not sharp.

I want a real, dedicated camera.

In 2017, I tried out a few cameras and was not impressed at all with picture quality. Tried a $600 Sony point and shoot, and a $1,000 Panasonic Lumix.

I want something simple and light. Don't want to lug around a beast. I love automatic settings instead of messing with a million different custom settings.

Budget: pretty big (makes me sick, but killer cameras ain't cheap).

I don't want to spend big bucks on different lenses. I want a yuge full frame sensor. Probably 40MP+. I like a high-res image. Needs very fast autofocus so pics aren't blurry. 4K 60FPS video.

Something new - made in 2020 or newer.

Long been interested in Sony mirrorless cameras. But, I have read that their menu system sucks.

The Sony Alpha 7R III looks sexy AF, but it's $2,800 with no lens lol.

The Sony RX1R II is their top-of-the-line compact camera. It's $3,300. It's so new that it doesn't come out for 3 more days.

The prices It is what it is

Would need a very nice extended warranty and insurance that covers accidental damage.

 

[britechguy]

Serious question: Have you played around with customizing the settings, or using "condition specific settings" on your iPhone camera?

Using the defaults often gets you crap, but tweaking results in spectacular.

High end cell phone cameras are not unlike classic SLRs in that what you get out is often the direct product of how you've set things up in order to take a specific shot, under specific conditions. The beauty with smartphone cameras is that many allow you to create setting profiles where you've tweaked a multitude of settings that you can use in the future just by selecting the profile. Way less fiddly than manual setup on even the very best real cameras.

All that being said, no smartphone camera will ever equal what you can get from a "real camera," where a real camera is a high end amateur grade or any professional grade SLR/DSLR or large format camera (but I don't know of any non-pros using large format).