the new phones take better pictures than most cameras Ive owned in the past.
Which is a real shame. Anybody can take a picture with their phone, crank it through photoshop, and look like a hero. I still kinda miss actual film. Getting the good Kodak slide film, taking the time to compose and set the camera, then taking it to Grand Canyon color lab to (expensively) develop it. And usually feeling a pretty good sense of accomplishment. Notice I said "kinda". Back then on a trip I'd take about 144 pics max. Latest trip to Death Valley, we took a combined total of over 10,000. No joke. Now, a large majority were GoPro pics but still.