Everyone's a photographer now. Almost nothing happens in the modern world without at least half of those present whipping out their smartphones to preserve the moment for the ages, or at least to pep up their Instagram feed.
Snapping away in the carefree spirit of a point-and-shoot camera is one thing, but with each new handset model released, the actual optics, lenses, sensors and image processing software of that smartphone camera in our palms and in our pockets becomes exponentially more powerful. The results possible now are so good, and of such high and professional quality, that iPhone photographs have appeared on the covers of such legendary, image-conscious newsstand magazines as Vogue, National Geographic and Time Magazine.
What typically doesn't change is the physical hardware itself. We're still largely limited to tapping at tiny icons on the screen, pinching and zooming (and repinching to unzoom because we pinched too much) to frame the...