For stills the new three camera iPhone is amazing unless you want to zoom. I own a bunch of L series Canon zoom lenses including an F4 600mm prime and it’s unbe

For stills the new three camera iPhone is amazing unless you want to zoom. I own a bunch of L series Canon zoom lenses including an F4 600mm prime and it’s unbelievable. In particular, compressing backgrounds into foreground subjects is what zoom lenses are great at. Or collapsing a scene. Google ‘seven powerlines scene’ on google images for an example. Other than zoom lenses my iPhone does everything I need for stills and the new wide lens is amazing. Video is different. Cellphones still suck at producing video with a wide dynamic range and color depth. I make films and we shoot on Blackmagic cameras. We get raw partial debayered output with 4:4:4 12 bit color and 14.5 stops of dynamic range. Your cellphone won’t come close to this, which is fine because you’re not grading your video much. We put the footage in davinci resolve and push the hell out of it, and if you don’t have that data depth it’ll fall apart fast. But cellphones will get there with video too and then we’ll be left in the same situation, where the only differentiator will be things that you simply can’t achieve with a small platform - like fast zoom lenses or intentionally large sensors.