Austin Mann takes Apple's iPhone 5s, and only the iPhone 5s as his primary camera on a trip to Patagonia.  Okay, he actually also brought along an iPhone 5 for comparison sake but he did leave his $6,800 Canon 1DX DSLR at home.

Now, after a full week of testing the iPhone 5S in Patagonia I'm beyond impressed with what it can do. We had our hands on two iPhone 5S's just minutes after they were released… a couple days later, we were bound for Patagonia to field to test the iPhone 5S camera against it's predecessor the iPhone 5. All the fancy new features like fingerprint scan are nice and nifty but as a travel photographer, all I really care about is what this camera can do.

He shows off a quite few impressive panoramic shots depicting the enhanced dynamic range capabilities of the iPhone 5s and this alone, in my opinion, is reason for the upgrade.  Arghh... looks like the next time I'm around an Apple store, I'm trading in my iPhone 5.

via Austin Mann