Starter’s delight

The tail wags the dog, now. Who would have thought that mobile phones, which offered an on-board camera (or 2 or 3) as free extras to the basic call function, would influence the design of Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras! And here’s the added irony: to attract phone owners to invest in a dedicated DSLR, camera makers are touting features that came first to the phone: easy brightness adjust and bokeh blurring, the ability to add effects or change focus after shooting. Then they throw in a large, adjustable LCD screen to monitor your shot — much as you do on a phone screen.