I’m Using a Real Camera After Years of iPhone Photography

A picture is worth a thousand words.

For many, many years, I’ve relied on my smartphone to take my pictures.

It isn’t that I don’t like cameras; it’s just that my smartphone is always with me and, well, it has the best cameras I own.

Before I started snapping all my shots on a phone, I’d only owned relatively inexpensive point-and-shoots; they took pretty good photos, but I never really learned how to do everything with them, and they took forever sometimes to turn on and get focused on the shot. They were clunky, cumbersome, unintuitive, and at the end of the day, it was simply easier to whip out an iPhone to get the shot I wanted quickly and painlessly.

It wasn’t until the release of the iPhone 13 that I started thinking about a real camera again.

Reader, I do not own an iPhone 13. I still have an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and though I really wanted the 13 Pro for the smaller size and better camera system, I couldn’t bring myself to upgrade. In fact, if I did upgrade, it would likely be to the 13 mini, which is still my preferred size of phone (seriously, I also carry around my 12 mini even though it isn’t connected to jack shit, because sometimes my phablet phone feels bigger than my iPad mini).

What really peaked my interest in the 13 Pro, however, was macro photography. My favorite things to photograph are everyday objects, but at angles or so close up that you’ll…