
<p>A nature photographer takes his iPhone 5S to Patagonia and no other camera. The results are pretty impressive.</p><p>No fooling, the 5S might be the best camera ever for taking pictures of the boys. I can snap ten frames a second, choose the best one, delete the rest with a single swipe and all in camera. The big Nikon still gets hauled out for portraits and (linked story not withstanding) nature trips, and any time I'm shooting in low light. But otherwise, it's all iPhone, all the time.</p><p>Here's a snapshot I took just this morning of some of the fall colors coming into our back yard. I haven't edited, retouched, or cropped this at all just used the phone's built-in (and instantaneous) High Dynamic Range. Click for the full-size image and enlarge in your browser window if you need to, and you'll see the sharpness is pretty impressive.</p><p>That's as much detail and more color than I used to get out of my then-current Nikon D200 just six or seven years ago. The only thing my current Nikon D7000 does better is shoot in low light, provide more megapixels, and change lenses. It can shoot only 4.5 frames per second to the iPhone's ten, with a buffer limit of about 15. If the iPhone has a buffer limit, I've yet to hit it. It seems to be able to shoot 10FPS, every second, until you completely fill the memory.</p><p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/19/leave-the-nikon-take-the-iphone/">Keep reading...</a></p>