It's all about the glass ... the lenses. A camera with a large aperture (translation: one of those great big lenses) can do stuff a phone camera can only simul

It's all about the glass ... the lenses. A camera with a large aperture (translation: one of those great big lenses) can do stuff a phone camera can only simulate. -- gather more light. (Phone camera sensors are getting better so that's of diminishing importance.) -- control the depth of field nicely. Lens marketroids brag about "creamy bokeh", which is what the out-of-focus stuff looks like in a photo taken with a narrow depth of field. Cell phones use a depth-sensor hack ... a really great depth-sensor hack ... to drive image processing to blur image backgrounds. Great hack, but still a hack. If you're thinking of buying a camera with the crappy kit 14-14mm f/2.8 zoom lens, just don't. Use your camera. But if you know what a good lens is for and know how to use it, buy the camera. I want this LEGENDARY lens to take pictures of indoor events but I can't justify the cost. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1023336-REG/panasonic_leica_dg_nocticron_42_5mm.html/overview https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1023336-REG/panasonic... Phone camera designers should keep chasing Neal Stephenson's lensless camera vision from Anathem. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem) But in the meantime good glass has its place. And, here's the thing: camera lenses, properly cared for, can last a lot longer than camera bodies. If the body craps out get a new body that fits your glass.