When do you think Smart Phone Cameras be good enough for quality Bug photos?

...have significantly better cameras than others.

I have utilized my Samsung Galaxy S3 camera (which actually has a built in macro setting), for many of the images here on the guide.

Here are some of the images taken with my phone camera. Some are positioned with fluorescent lighting next to the subject. All images are taken with the built in S3 camera without any attachments:


I've also taken images of palps through microscope lenses with my Galaxy S3:


From my experience, iPhone cameras are subpar for insect images.

FWIW, the iPhone 6 camera focusses closer than the iPhone 5 and earlier models did. It's not "close-up" as in bugguide standards, but if it's all you have, it's not bad.

In one test shot, of a honey bee on an aster, I can zoom to see wing veins clearly on the bee.

In other respects, the camera in the iPhone 6 is superb.
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I have Easy Macro for those times when I don't have my DSLR. It lets me take adequate ID shots, and for some insects shots that look good on a mobile screen, but I wouldn't consider any of them really good.

-because you have to hold the phone practically on top of the insect, not all insects are good subjects
-light is also a problem for the same reason
-really bad chromatic aberration in contrasty bits
-thin focus plane means that most non-flat insects will be partially out of focus, not necessarily in a good way
-shutter lag of phone makes sharp photos of moving insects nearly impossible

Some of these issues I can see being improved with better camera phone technology, and I think other attachments (like the Olloclip for iPhone) do produce better results. Carrying a small LED flashlight to provide additional lighting might help.

But ultimately, phone cameras are extremely wide-angle and fixed aperture. I've taken some pretty good photos of larger insects (e.g. grasshoppers), but for small insects, even with lens attachments, I'm not sure phone cameras will ever be great for macro. It's not what the majority of people use them for, so they won't ever be designed for it.

I recently bought one of these, certainly the smallest supplementary lens for a phone.
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It's fun to fool with, but the results I got were disappointing. It's also too much magnification for insect photography.

Two problems I see are 1. you don't have an articulated viewing screen, something that's essential to my insect photography, and 2. the available supplementary lenses I've seen require you to be really close.