If you love taking photos with your smartphone, it might make sense to get a dedicated camera. Smartphone cameras are getting better and better every year, and indeed they are good enough for most people in most situations (especially now that night mode is a thing, along with optical zoom features). But a smartphone camera will never fully compete with a “real” camera. Here are the reasons why.
There are three major components to any camera: the sensor, the lens and the body. No matter how good smartphones get in the next few years, they will pale in comparison with dedicated cameras in all three categories. Before I get into each one of these, let’s first recognize in which areas smartphones are actually better:
Compactness. We all slip our phones into our pockets or purses every single day, everywhere we go. So for the mere ability to add a camera to your everyday carry, nothing beats the smartphone. There actually are cameras that could be considered smaller (maybe an action cam like a GoPro, for instance), but nothing is as flat and compact as, for instance, the iPhone 12 Mini. And when considering a dedicated camera, I actually recommend still prioritizing this quality — a camera is useless if you leave it at home, at most people don’t love carrying around a bulky DSLR. Luckily there are plenty of other…
