iPhone 14 Pro. I don't need anything else to document our local expeditions. The GoPro hasn't seen light for over 20 months, and will only see it when we go back in the water 🏄🏻♂️.
The Sony A6400 + Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 combo is being used only for portraits.
Om Malik's (along with many others') diagnosis and prognosis is spot on.
The big four camera makers — Canon, Nikon, Fuji, and Sony — will be left fighting over scraps. Of the lot, Sony seems to be the best prepared to navigate the choppy waters. And it won’t be because of its camera sales — it is because of its photography focussed component business. Sony makes sensors for everyone, including the standalone camera’s biggest nemesis: the smartphone (and specifically, the iPhone).
-- Om Malik (iPhone vs Camera: No Contest), Feb 2021
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