Originally Posted by
Steve Adams That is a fair comparison as far as I am concerned. The two sets of photos were taken in the same light and focus distance. The 1020 ROCKS. There is no phone camera that even holds a candle to the 1020.
No it is not a fair comparison. They are not side by side comparisons of identical scenes. The backgrounds vary as do ambient and background lighting, not to mention shutters speeds and apertures. You have also provided no details regarding the configuration of the six year old DSLR or how the files were processed. For my money, they look like decent P&S images compared to minimally processed DSLR raw images shot as if shooting with a P&S camera, then converted straight to jpg.
Yes, they look nice (mostly) but they compare nothing at all. In fact, to me they show the great limitation of all P&S cameras with over packed sensors - an artificial emphasis on detail over color, DOF, bokeh, and overall lighting. They also demonstrate a well known fact. If you take an expensive DSLR and use it like a P&S camera, 1) the results will be mediocre (at best) and 2) you wasted the money buying such an expensive camera. This is even more true given it is a second generation full frame camera released at the start of 2009. I am sorry but I do not see the "wow" in anything here (can manage about the same with a 928 under those settings). I also do see a DSLR technique in several images that suggest snapshot expertise that lends itself to less than spectacular results with any full frame DSLR.
I have made this comparison just for fun. I even didn't thought that our gorgeous Lumia will be such a great competitor to DSLR! On some photos I have used prime (very expensive) canon lenses (85 mm f/1.2L). So, here is my results:
