[rfreiberger]

I started with SLR's in high school photography and loved how you could see just what the camera was doing. Using the Pentax K1000 with a 50mm 2.0 lens (at the time was a super cheap combo kit) just inspired me to really learn more about photography. When I moved to DSLR's later, it was even better, I could now see the images and taken nearly endless amount photos.

But I started to get bogged down trying to take a full bag of lenses and large DSLR to social events or traveling. I found that I was spending more time behind the lens with the technical side vs spending time capturing the moment. Sold off my kit and went with a Fuji X100T, fixed length compact camera. It's not great for action but worked wonderfully capturing the kids and with the fully silent mode, very well for weddings.

Once my phone camera quality started to approach my camera, I stopped using the Fuji as much and followed the rule of "the best camera you have is the one you carry". While I love having that dedicated camera, just having the live cloud backup, apps to edit, made my next decision to be an upgraded phone over a camera. It's hard to hear the news about Canon especially, the 70-200mm F/2.8 IS lens is simply amazing and I rented a 85mm f/1.2 which is the lens for portraits.

[alistairSH]

Likewise, when it came time to upgrade my camera drawer, I decided spending a bit more on the iPhone Pro made more sense then a new body or lens. Glad I did, as it’s always in my pocket.

I do still have a pair of Olympus u4/3 bodies and ~5 lenses for special occasions. Vacations, wildlife, etc.

[rfreiberger]

The biggest reason why I held off on the camera was missing the fisheye lens, once that became a common feature, I was pretty much sold going with the phone over a camera.

[alistairSH]

My use case for the camera are wildlife (reach), low-light (phones can’t beat a moderately priced f1.8 lens), and macro (haven’t tried an iPhone 13 Pro yet).