Pictures

There are a few advantages that a dedicated camera has over a phone camera that are unlikely to go away any time soon. They’re so much faster to go from being off, to capturing the image. They can take in so much more light, making them viable for faster exposures in lower light situations. That also means (because a lot of it is achieved by means of wider aperture) more of that oh-so-beautiful bokeh that just can’t quite be simulated by phones’ digital manipulation. And the ability to plug in a really long lens means closeups of sportspeople and wildlife are hard to beat.

But computational photography is making it so that any other types of photos are very, very good on modern phones.