"...Or to put it another way: cell phone cameras have gotten good enough that they will do 90% to 95% of everything that the average person would ever want out

"...Or to put it another way: cell phone cameras have gotten good enough that they will do 90% to 95% of everything that the average person would ever want out of a camera. ..." I've been a photographer my entire life. I love the hobby. Over the last few years, I've been thinking a lot about this also. I have the latest Pixel. I also have a couple of DSLRs and a few lenses. Recently I bought the best point-and-shoot you can buy. From the reviews, I was promised great things about it. Result? Meh. The phones and mirrorless DLSRs are not bad cameras. Both have reached the point where I'd guess they'd do about 80% of what I would do, and that's pretty cool. It's especially handy if I'm in a hurry and just want to bang out a few shots to send or post somewhere. The problem is that last 20%. My time is not free. Usually if I'm going out to shoot some, I want to shoot some. That is, I want full control over the light bucket, a great bucket, and I'm taking time to get shots that might turn out well when I get into post-processing. These higher-tech cameras take pretty cool shots all of the time, but they're just guessing as to what might make a good shot, and they have built-in limits. So if I'm taking an afternoon to shoot, I'm taking my DSLR. Oddly, the newer mirrorless camera has been the most disappointing, probably because I had such high hopes. It's great tech, it's just not a professional part of a photography workflow. Once I stopped thinking I could take pro pictures with it, it got more fun. But now whenever I'm using it I wonder why I'm not just going with the cell phone.