Hello. This is Ochiai, the designer.

Today I'd like to talk about smartphone cameras.

These days, with social media and all, I imagine a great many people take photos with their smartphones.

Smartphone cameras are something we handle every day—but do you know what kind of lens they actually use?

Today I've drawn a comic explaining smartphone lenses, so please have a look (^^♪

And that's it! I tried drawing a comic, but I get the feeling it ended up being nothing but text... (lol)

When you take a photo with your smartphone, faces can look somehow off, or horizontal lines come out distorted rather than clean. That's because smartphone lenses are basically wide-angle lenses. Recently there are clip-on lenses for smartphones on the market, and the model I just upgraded to even has a telephoto lens built in.

By the way, I said "if only you could zoom" in the comic, and that's because around 50mm is said to produce the least distortion.

That doesn't mean wide-angle lenses are bad. What matters is understanding their characteristics and using them accordingly—make the most of their strengths and you might take even better photos! (lol)

In short, it's about the right tool for the right job.

Photos taken with a smartphone are a bit small for printing, but they're the perfect size for posting to a blog or social media.

A DSLR can shoot at larger sizes than a smartphone, which makes it well suited to printing. You can change the image size in the settings, so you can also shoot at a smaller size for your blog. Considering printing and photographic flexibility (different lens options, etc.), personally I think the DSLR is best—but when it comes to sheer convenience, the smartphone you carry around every day wins hands down (;^ω^)

And with that, today's talk was about the smartphone camera, something we all have close at hand!