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If it’s for holidays and kids, I’d say stick with a top of the line phone, then think about getting a discrete camera for edge cases (if you have that kind of money)

The best camera is the one you have available. Kids are mobile and wild and often do memorable things at unexpected time. Whipping out your iPhone and taking a video or picture is easy and pretty much always capable.

Phone cameras, with much processing magic, do produce pretty good pictures. And pretty good pictures beat non existent excellent pictures because you didn’t lug your camera around.