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Smartphone and/or Camera?

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martindow
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My partner currently has an old phone that makes calls and texts but no internet or camera. She has a separate point and shoot type camera about 8 years old which is OK but no doubt cameras have moved on.

She is now looking to get a smart phone. Some of her friends have suggested spending £350 or so on an iphone and use it as a camera as well.

I've got a spare Moto G4 (2nd gen) that I can give her which has a middling and rather fiddly camera. I've suggested that she uses that as her new phone and buys a new camera for £100ish - she's got no problem with having two separate items. Am I right in thinking that for that money you could get a camera that is at least equal to an iphone's?

What do you think she should do?

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  • Any decent standalone camera is going to be better, just look at the size of the lens on a phone. It depends on how important photography is to her.
  • pmduk
    pmduk Posts: 10,681 Forumite
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    You need to consider whether she will actually carry both items. Any camera is no use if it's sitting at home. I suggest a smartphone is more likely to be on your person.
  • Atasas
    Atasas Posts: 753 Forumite
    edited 26 January 2018 at 1:42PM
    Any decent standalone camera is going to be better, just look at the size of the lens on a phone. It depends on how important photography is to her.
    +1!
    indeed them phone camera's are only in theory ever so many pixels, but as ever only one part of 3 main components of good picture taking, hence my ancient 4MP Kodak is making way better pictures than my Nokia 13MP phone, with 1/3 sized image size, due to lens, Sensor quality ISO etc.

    If anything, if MUST look out for a phone with Sony Exmor IMX378 (CMOS 1200 +) sensor, most likely, they'll have decent lenses too, pictures would be half decent- OK.
    However suggestion of needing to spend £350 is silly. IE Xiaomi Mi 5s for photo taking purposes simply outperform iPhones by a country mile.
    Good source of initial research is GSMarena.com
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