[jamiek88]

Yes but I have my iPhone everywhere and the pictures the 15 pro max takes are beyond ‘good enough’.

Even the zoom is pretty good nowadays.

Often the choice isn’t iPhone photo or DSLR photo it’s iPhone or no photo at all.

It’s a right faff getting the DSLR out and carrying it around. I brought mine to NYC over Xmas and ended up using my phone mostly.

Also no one I know prints photos out, they look at them on their phone, iPad or maybe TV if they care enough or have a screensaver slideshow.

I’d love to use my DSLR more and every year I tell myself I’m going to but I just… don’t.

[shinycode]

I tried to go on holidays with my dslr… what a pain. So heavy (unless you buy a $3000 mirrorless) for photos I never print and the times I print them no one ever take the time to look at them. They stay in a closet until thrown out. The quality from my iPhone is not that great as a 4K monitor wallpaper compared to my DSLR. But given the fact that it weights nothing and on holidays the iPhone allows me to text, use GPS and google maps, play, read articles, watch videos and allows an immediate editing of my photos in raw and created a shared album right away … it’s a no brainer anymore

[pmontra]

Buy any compact camera with a 30x optical zoom and it will take better pictures than a smartphone. Maybe not all of them, but you can zoom on details from a distance, take pictures of animals that would flee if you try to get close, etc. The last one I bought about 10 years ago was about 300 Euro, maybe 200. It has wifi to backup pictures to my phone.

[taejo]

You're right about the strengths of the phone camera, and I also take many more pictures with it. But printing large prints, framing and hanging pictures is absolutely worth doing, much more than printing 4×5s to flip through. I love having them and everyone who comes into my home takes some time to look at them.

[iamacyborg]

Just buy a used mirrorless camera, it’ll set you back a couple hundred, not 3k.

New technology is fun and all, but even decade old digital cameras are more than good enough for good holiday snaps that you might want to crop and print.

[Psychoshy_bc1q]

I regularly use my DSLR and print photos with my own canon photoprinter. i bought a 70mm-300mm lens for a bronyconvention (galacon) and it is simply impossible to get images of that quality with a phone.

and the 50mm f1.8 is really great considering the low price.

[jamiek88]

Yes and I manually sort through thousands of sunflower seeds every year to get the good ones for my breeding program but our obscure hobbies aren’t the norm.

[linux_is_nice]

Now I want to know more about your sunflower breeding program :)

[k12sosse]

..until you find out it's for bronycon snack packs