Fuji-v-Smartphone

Just back from holidays. I took my X-T2, my X100F, and shot a few dozen shots on my (old) Galaxy S8.

For speed, the S8 is a no brainer. Quickest draw of them all.

Some observations:

These days, smart phones take incredibly good pictures. They're fast, unobtrusive, easy to use, and much more discreet than traditional cameras.

BUT, you're still not going to get the quality of a dedicated camera, and a reasonably experienced shooter.

You CAN take a smart phone into a lot of places that you can't take a traditional camera. Concerts, sporting events, museums, galleries... I got some great shots at a football match in Edinburgh, and some galleries in London.

You can maximize the quality of your smart phone images by using it in conjunction with a serious photo editing program. My experience with mine, is that it tends to over-saturate everything, and kill shadows. Easily remedied in C1, LR, PS, etc.

Every 'zoom' feature on every smart phone that I've ever tried sucks. Don't bother. You can crop some on a smart phone, but not much.

Scanning my shots from holidays -it's going to take some time; there are over 1200- things are exactly how they should be, with regards to image quality:

X-T2: Most of my best shots.

X100F: Lots of great holiday snaps; plenty of excellent street shots.

S8: Plenty of great snaps; shots I took when I otherwise never would have thought to take a picture. (This is important to me. Capturing the minutia of my holiday, makes a nice set with all the other shots to tell the whole story.)