Recently I decided to get back into photography, inspired perhaps by my recent trip and looking at my old photos. I upgraded my camera to a used Sony Alpha a7 II, which is a middle-of-the-road pro-amateur mirrorless camera, kind of a compromise but way better than my old one. I wanted a place to explore the camera versus my phone, and I had heard about this abandoned hot springs and building out in Byron, CA about 45 minutes away, so I went there this morning and took photos with both the camera and the phone.

My two main takeaways are that the phone tries too hard to make pictures look amazing and oversaturates the colors and second that the zoom lenses are indispensable and something the phone can’t reproduce. I couldn’t go up to the building so I had to take pictures from about a tenth of a mile away and the phone just can’t do it well. I’ll post in the captions below which is which.