I still use a point and shoot camera for taking my photos. This is due to two reasons. FIrstly, I do not own a smartphone with a camera good enough to take high quality photos. Secondly, I believe that the photos taken by a proper camera are more richer and and have better low-light reproduction.
I'm no photographer, so I tend to just take all my photos with my older version of the Ipod Touch. I don't see much point in me buying a high quality camera for £££'s when I rarely take photos, my Ipod is enough
I rarely take pictures because I don't like to take pictures. I feel that taking pictures takes away the experience because I'll tend to forget to sink in the moment. I don't have any camera so if I needed to snap pictures for evidence, I'll just use whatever I have in my cellphone.
I have two reliable helpers in my pocket: Sony Xperia Ray and HTC One S, both enhanced with a 8MP camera. Personally, I prefer the pics taken with Sony, since its camera seems to render more vivid colors, but HTC is far more advanced than iPhone`s 5MP camera, which I found quite disappointing
I generally take my picture with the camera on my smartphone and I have to say that it does a pretty decent job at clicking photographs. I own a Nexus 4 which has an 8-megapixel shooter which does a very commendable job. I would also like to say that nowadays more and more people have started taking photos with their smartphones as the quality of the cameras onboard the current generation of smartphones has become very good.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 takes amazing pictures which is in league with many high end cameras these days. However, I don't own one. I use a standalone point and shoot camera instead which was one of the top rated cameras of its time. It's the Canon S95. It has many modes and the quality is top notch. Video comes in the regular formats and HD.
That's more or less the problem with smartphones, the camera sensors in them are not comparable to those in dedicated cameras in most instances - hence the grainy images and generally lower quality images. Smartphones are fine for casual pictures, but I would never use them to shoot important events. The other thing is that shooting with on screen buttons is much less convenient than having dedicated physical buttons on a traditional camera. Smart phones are far too laggy and unresponsive when trying to shoot stuff where there is a lot of action or the timing needs to be just right. Also, I know some people have said that the best camera is the one you have with you at all times - which sounds cute because it's another way of saying that a smartphone camera is better than no camera. But to counter that, the battery life of a smartphone, especially when using it as a camera, is much shorter than carrying a dedicated camera around with you. So you could also argue the flip side, it's better to carry a camera with you that can stay charged for a days worth of shooting, than one that will go dead in an hour or two of shooting.
Since I'm a cheap bastard I take them with my phone. Smartphones have evolved quite a lot and so did the camera resolution but I still think that for great pictures you need to buy a proper camera, even a cheap one. You can still tell easily which pictures were taken with the phone and which were taken with a camera. For most people the phone is enough so I'm not complaining but I sure wish more were using proper cameras. I'm sick of seeing all kinds of badly taken pictures of myself on Facebook
