
But for many reasons-including its expensive, subscription-based pricing model and its proprietary license-there's a lot of interest in open source and other alternatives. For this, a digital image processing application is indispensable, and the go-to application has been Adobe Lightroom. While that might be valid in the point-and-shoot camera market, there are a sizeable number of photography professionals and hobbyists who recognize that a camera that fits in your pocket can never replace a high-end DSLR camera and the depth, clarity, and realism of its photos.Īll of that power comes with a small price in terms of convenience like negatives from traditional film cameras, the raw image files produced by DSLRs must be processed before they can be edited or printed.


You wouldn't be wrong to wonder whether the smartphone, that modern jack-of-all-trades, is taking over photography.
