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Completely agree. My DSLR is mostly gathering dust these days - the things I bought it for that phones could not do well at the time were primarily landscapes, low-light photography, and wildlife. My current phone has a wide angle lens that does a great job with landscapes. Phones over the last few years have gotten very good at low light. DSLRs still win here, but not by enough to make it worth lugging around (with a tripod, too).

Wildlife is my only remaining use case where the DSLR is still the only viable option as I generally can't get very close to the subject. This seems too niche to keep an entire market afloat, though.

I'll also still lug the DSLR out if I have a shot planned out that I want to nail or when I'm asked to take photos of someone's kid. Having the ability to work with raw gives a lot of options for fixing lighting and colors. Today's phones do a fantastic job of getting you 80% of the way there automatically, though.



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