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What are you gonna say when somebody asks that question, that has been asked a hundred times in this thread already
OP asked for a camera. Not a smartphone with a particularly outstanding camera. These days I don't think it's necessary to point out that 'your phone has a camera on it, you know!'
they are good when you are in a hurry to take some pics as reference and / or to use it as a different kind of scanner, but as a proper compact camera, not my cup of tea.
I agree; to me they're basically 'better than no camera at all'.
I accept that people have launched photography careers off the back of shooting with phones, but they remain unwieldy and awkward to me. They're light, but the volume button on the iPhone requires a firm press (usually moving the phone) to take a shot - otherwise you're left with poking the screen (always moving the phone). I also find the iPhone too thin to properly grip, and generally slippery.
Accessories that attempt to 'fix' these appalling ergonomics usually render the phone larger than something truly compact (like a Canon S120) or demand to be attached/removed every time you need to take a picture.
Those are just a few of the reasons I prefer a separate camera.
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OP asked for a camera. Not a smartphone with a particularly outstanding camera.
He did says touring, and the iPhone exceed in that category.
Otherwise, being extremely biased because I used one for touring; Sony RX100.
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These days I don't think it's necessary to point out that 'your phone has a camera on it, you know!'
Well @ExTra just got a new phone, so that suggestion is lapsed, but for most people this is the season to get new phones - so my thinking was rather: maybe spend a little more on a phone that already has a proper camera built-in, likely this will be all you need.
My intent was not to point out that phones have cams now, as if everybody was too thick to realize that.
I do think most people have not realized yet though, that - for what the majority of them is actually doing with a camera, and what they are actually doing with the files later (putting them on the internet, maybe browsing them on laptops fullscreen, but not making big prints from them) - the current generation of top smartphones will do this very job just fine, so it might actually be a very good solution as you need a phone anyways and have a camera that does what you want always with you, right in your pocket.
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Yea, sorry - I'm all for "real" cameras instead of using phones, it's just like:
What are you gonna say when somebody asks that question, that has been asked a hundred times in this thread already - without giving any further info on what you aim to do with it, what your price range is, if you prefer / already have experience with a certain maker, if you need / want a zoom or if fixed is fine, if you really need weatherproofing etc. etc. -
it's just hard to help really, so I gave a very generic answer to your very generic question.
Still quite a bit serious at the same time though, as for people who don't necessarily have specific needs, an iPhone 6 can actually be a super camera, and one that you have always with you.