Phones are the next best thing sometimes even better than dslr. But to shoot corals with a dslr a macro lens is pretty much a must have. I’m more into filmmaking than photography but I do both. A mixture of both is a good practice.Nice! I've always liked photography and I used to shoot with cheap 35 mm Russian slr's to get some interesting saturation and contrast. Now that my wife and I are in the aquarium hobby I've come back to photography and the phone is the easiest thing to use; especially with some of these lens kits.
We have a pretty high end Nikon DSLR, but unfortunately not a macro lens for it. Maybe someday soon, who knows...
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