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There are several benefits to using a digital camera over a smartphone camera.

For one, digital cameras are dedicated to their task and do not need to fit into the tiny body of a smartphone, so they can pack larger sensors (which can take photos are higher resolutions and with better quality).

Digital cameras such as 'point-and-shoot' cameras and 'digital SLR' cameras, use zoom lenses which physically transform and bend light to achieve wide or long zooms. Digital SLR cameras in particular allow the photographer to change lenses which have different qualities, such as being able to shoot at a wide angle, long (telephoto) zoom, or a 'prime' (fixed zoom ratio) lense which captures light very well and can display a narrow depth-of-field (or background blur, for artistic effect) better than a variable zoom lense. Smartphone cameras do not have this kind of versatility, they are limited to a method called 'digital zoom' where the image from the smartphone's camera sensor is simply resized and loses some of its quality when zoomed in.

I think the last great point is that certain kinds of shots are impossible to pull off with a smartphone camera that can be accomplished by a point and shoot or DSLR. Many smartphone cameras fail at taking night photos without flash but these can be pulled off with a DSLR (or sometimes even a P&S) on a tripod. In addition there are HDR photos which are several photos taken at varying exposures which can be combined to produce a composited and unique photo that looks almost otherworldly.

The big draw of smartphone cameras of course is their versatility. It's one device in your pocket that you will be willing to carry with you at all times. And as smartphone cameras become more advanced it becomes harder and harder to tell the difference between a good smartphone camera and a mediocre point and shoot.

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