Originally Posted by
rebel1916
My phone costs me $25 a month. Phones now take pics about as good as a low end point and click from a few years back. Which is to say adequate. So pretty much the same as any pocket camera.
This does not agree with my experience. In my work setting we need at times to take a picture of the same subject, for record keeping, each with his own device. When we compare those pictures side-by-side, my nearly decade old point-and-shoot Canon takes way better pictures than anybody's few-hundred $ contemporary phones.