It’s been said that the best camera is the one you already own, but can a smartphone truly replace a DSLR? That largely depends on what you value in a camera system, whether that’s portability and ease of use, the quality of your shots, or even the amount of detail you’d like to pull from the environment.
While smartphone photography has aged gracefully, especially over the past five years, it’s still far-fetched to say it’s leveled with DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. The biggest gap is in natural blur/depth of field and color accuracy. With the increasing reliance on computational photography and backend processing, smartphone photos are often automatically tuned to appear more colorful, vibrant, and sharp than reality.
On the other hand, the portability and form factor of smartphones make capturing smaller subjects or from different angles much easier to do. Transfering and sharing photos and videos is also much more burdenless.
