I like photography, I really do. But Cheap SLRs and compacts are just not improving enough.
The Samsung S6 phone I carry actually does well for me when it has enough light. Here is a pic today from the bus in Nice.
The only pocketable cam I know that can do better is the RX100, and it is much larger and fragile.
Next phone I buy I will make sure i can take uncompressed pix.
Edmund
I agree with you, Edmund.
I think low-end DSLRs and P&Ss are a waste of money, and a hassle, for 99% of the population, including you and me.
This is why I think Nikon is making a good move, shifting
away from "Cool Pix" and moving to uber-quality Point-N-Shoots, like
the DL Series.
I am anxiously awaiting my DL 18-50. I am a private investigator and insurance adjuster by trade.
Documenting cases "with photographs" comprises a huge part of what I do for a living.
One of the reasons many clients ask me to handle their cases, by name, is because of
my images.
Where most investigators just pull out their cell phones these days, and fire-off a few images and move on ... as of now I bring a D810, and a couple of prime lenses, and so when the clients get my reports, along with the supporting documents, the difference in quality (format and orientation) is literally night-and-day.
A photo of a building where an occurrence took place, taken with "vertical composition" by a cell phone isn't
quite what a wide-angle photo, properly composed "horizontally" looks like through a D810 (even if the client isn't sophisticated enough to pinpoint "why").
That said, a high-end point and shoot (like I had with the G15) would give me far better quality than a cell phone, it has raw format to tweak in Photoshop, and yet is not such a burden to carry on a case as is a D810 + lenses in the field. As soon as I get my Nikon DL point and shoot I am not going to bring my D810 any longer out in the field, unless I am doing surveillance (and, in that case, I will move to my D500--whenever I get
that!).
I believe there is still room for point-and-shoots (even in the cell phone age), just
not low-level ones, and not with the average person.
For the average person, it is 1000x easier (and better) to use a cell phone now than a junk P&S, because again, you can immediately share your phone images on FB.
The only room for P&Ss now, IMO, are the really good ones ... and only to those who need that extra bit of difference.