Short answer: It depends.
I have always grappled with the sometimes competing aspects of vision versus craft.
iPhones are great for caaual use, This is auch a no-brainer.. You dont have to think of any of the mechanics of photography. Just point and shoot..
It’s really a matter of control, especially creative control over the scene in front of you. With modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras you can conteol a number of different parameters that are more difficult to deal with on an iPhone.
The big difference is shutter/aperture priority;this affects stuff like depth of field and the ability to freeze-focus objects using high shutter speeds, or conversely, blurring backgrounds while panning moving objects using a alow shutter speed. And of course using the combination of theae two features to control depth of field- larger aperture mean shallow focus, small aperture means objects near and far to the lens are in focus.
Some of theae mechanics can be contoled on a smartphone but not so easily done in the native ios camera app. I have found that the Halide camera app handles a number of these capabilities. But it is kind of ackward to use if you’re a photog that’s used to setting these controls on a camera.
All in all, iPhones are great for caaual use, and wven can produce decent size prints. Its worth it, but I still go back to the basics time and again, even back to using good old film.
