I am a huuuuuge fan of smartphone cameras and all the empowerment and all the new opportunities it affords us in a very democratic way. But the thing and what I believe my honest truth is:

A stand-alone camera, dedicated camera, focused on only making photos or video will always be 10x superior. 

My thoughts:

Smartphone cameras are very good, but not the best and apex cameras

I think the iPhone Pro camera is “good enough” for photography in the sense that the performance parallels the early (good) digital point and shoot cameras. But if we even compare the newest iPhone Pro camera to the newest RICOH GR III digital camera, the Ricoh is still perhaps at least 10x better in image quality, sharpness, depth, dynamic range, color and black and white aesthetic processing. Lately I’ve been shooting a lot with my LUMIX G9 and Leica-LUMIX 12mm f1.4 lens, and the video (4K 60 FPS) on it is phenomenal.

So the basic thought is this:

Better to shoot with (or buy) RICOH GR III than the newest iPhone Pro.

Also —

With a phone, buy a phone for the phone capability, not the camera!

This means buy a phone for the phone, and buy a camera for the camera.

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