Smartphone vs Dedicated Cameras

I'm a camera enthusiast and I collect some fancy/expensive old cameras and lenses. I'm the last person who you think would settle for a camera phone as a camera replacement. But they are just getting so good and they are so easy to use!I'm finding it harder and harder to justify bringing along a camera unless I'm doing special like a specific photo shoot. Obviously phone cameras are no where near as good as a 40 megapixel full frame camera with a good prime lens shoot

Wouldn't you get a better and cheaper camera if it's really a camera and not a phone?

Some people don't always want to carry around their DSLR. Having a decent back-up with great image quality in their phone that they always have with them is convenient. And not everybody is willing to buy a DSLR, but cares just enough about picture quality that they might get this. Apple and Samsung don't fill their advertising with how great their cameras are just for fun.

Using a proper dslr or mirrorless does make a measurable difference in terms of the depth of focus, aperture, image size, speed, etc. The lenses in the latest iphone can't really compete with a quality camera lens.However as I mentioned those cameras are not fun to carry around all day unlike my phone. They are bulky and heavy, so I prefer not to use them except in important events or just around the house. And these days phone cameras are getting rather good for the average user's

Is there a significant advantage for capturing using DSLRs vs using the phone camera of a decent phone?

I wouldn't bother just for the camera.The Huawei P30 Pro,for example has an astonishing set of cameras on it - and I often use it as a companion to my "proper" camera.Though for me at least, the biggest thing that keeps me using an actual camera is the tactile nature of the controls.I think you would struggle to find one as light as iPhone but maybe take a look at models like the Ricoh GR3, any of the Fuji X series cameras (disclaimer, I have an XT3 and an XT10) or if you

It's not dissimilar to back in the pre-digital camera era... most people were fine with having a crappy point&shoot or disposable camera, and then we all had that nerdy uncle or friend who was really into cameras and willing to spend the money on a real 35mm SLR or rangefinder or whatever.Phones have taken the place of the old point and shoots.That doesn't mean that manufacturers of pro-sumer interchangeable lens cameras couldn't do a better job with software, though...

Absolutely, a real camera is on a different level.Photography is so pervasive now, so much a part of everyday life. For the casual to low level enthusiast, carrying a "Pro" smartphone is good enough and more convenient.Computational photography is also a thing.The iPhones 11 are on the front page of DPReview, which is interesting.

If you honestly think your phone camera is a valid replacement for medium/large format film, then you were never serious about photography in the first place.For all their improvements, smartphones are still extremely limited by sensor size and the size of optics. Those are terrible, compared to even the entry level DSLRs.I'm glad it works for your use case (although I can't imagine what that is), but any decent photographer will be able to tell a smartphone picture from a p

Obviously it will be hard for a phone with 1/10th the z index to fit the same optics that a DSLR came.But I work in video production and I can tell you that for 99% of people, there is absolutely no reason to buy a separate camera.What Apple and other smartphone makers have managed to achieve in such small and (relatively, compared to a full frame DSLR) inexpensive items is pretty amazing.They have such good quality that when I need to grab a quick pickup shot, I can easily use my