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Digital cameras, and digital cameras that you can also make phone calls with and use to do email are pretty much the same thing.
This is so not true.
There is an ocean between the two.
Phone cameras use very small, predominantly plastic, lenses and almost everything is done in software to correct the various issues that arise and to enhance the photo to give the illusion of the optics being more capable than they are.
Dedicated cameras use proper optics, and their hardware is all around manipulating the light through the optics and onto the sensor in a way that minimises the work that the software has to do to capture the image. The sensors are larger too, meaning even less correction and even higher quality.
The difference in technique between the two is astounding, and aside from the subjects remaining the same there really is no similarity.
No smartphone will ever perform as well as a camera as glass (optics) is the one thing that cannot be shrunk adequately. Software will never beat optics. Software just produces an entirely different style and feel of photography... more real-time, social, casual... and as such, those two threads will never be merged. They are different things.
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Where's the difference nowadays?
Digital cameras, and digital cameras that you can also make phone calls with and use to do email are pretty much the same thing.
I think that indeed the content of the two threads would complement aother.
Sure, phones are generally used more for "daily" stuff and "snapshops", but I really don't think it's an issue, or particularily true with users here, as people pretty much care about a good image - and it's really not a difference in my opinion if the device is also a phone.
I mean really - you say smartphone, but these things really are great, small digital cameras with a nice screen (that you can also make phonecalls with) - aren't they?