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Mobile phones are great. They're convenient.

They're always with you in your pocket.

You can just pull them out and take a photo.

But are they so good for food photography?

Personally, I like to take mobile photos of landscapes,

even board trade, but I'm not really happy today.

Food photos with a mobile phone.

Why? The problem with mobile phones is their lenses.

They have wide angle lenses,

which normally create a lot of distortion.

All wide-angle lenses create higher distortion.

Then narrower lenses, for example,

24 millimeter, will always have a bigger distortion than a 100 millimeters, for example.

The problem is that for food photography,

any distortion looks not very nice.

The objects, the props,

the dishes look distorted.

And this for me personally,

is really drawback of using these kinds of lenses.

Taking photo with a mobile or a compact camera as well,

because they have similar lenses,

makes your fault be small compared to the environment around.

So basically you take in your frame a lot of

the environment which most cases you don't want to take.

For me, honestly, the only angle that is acceptable for

taking food photography with mobile phone is from above or flatly.

Another shooting angle that you can try with a mobile phone is straight down.

Again, straight down minimizes distortion.

So you can perfectly use it in order to try to make nice photos with your mobile camera.

Another issue with a mobile phone cameras and wide-angle lenses in general,

is that you cannot achieve that good Walker is with a DSLR camera,

with a mirrorless camera,

it is possible in some cases,

especially some of the newest models, mobiles.

But in general, it's much difficult again,

because the wide-angle lenses are non-daily good to create balky.

Of course, again, some people might object

that the best ones for bulkier full-frame cameras.

But I can give a lot of examples of particular lenses that create wonderful book,

even in crop frame cameras,

I used to shoot a lot with my 50 millimeters,

1.8, which is a very affordable lens on a crop frame camera,

a very old model.

And it was creating fantastic book here.

Of course, the technology is developing and nowadays,

you can find mobile phones that create really beautiful photos,

even of food, because they have a lot of enhancements.

Their lenses are special even why then go there minimizing distortion and so on.

However, with mobile phone,

you don't learn really shooting.

You don't learn the same way as you learn with the camera.

That's why I absolutely advise you to get the camera even if it's not the newest model,

even if it's not full-frame as we spoke already,

full-frame is totally not necessary for good food photography.

But the camera, in my view,

is a must for someone that wants to deep dive in photography in general.