Phone camera vs mirrorless in 2026, is the gap closing?

Computational photography keeps improving. Do you still carry a dedicated camera, and for what situations?

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Chloe Davis · 14 likes

phone vs mirrorless will be boring in a year and everybody will use it anyway lol

lol this is too accurate

This. Exactly this

Yui Tanaka · 13 likes

Everyone is ignoring tradeoffs of phone vs mirrorless, performance vs complexity is a real thing

Kabir Khan · 1 likes

lol this is too accurate

Been following phone vs mirrorless since early on and the progress is kinda wild

Underrated comment right here

Saving this thread, phone vs mirrorless is exactly what I needed to read today

Ok but who is going to do the maintenance, asking for a friend

Cozy River · 5 likes

honestly phone vs mirrorless is more interesting than I expected, been reading about it all morning

my wallet just cried reading this

Kabir Khan · 0 likes

same here, had the exact same experience

Tried something similar last month, teh practical results mixed. Setup was ok but edge cases killed me

Can you share more details? Would love to try it

Maya Putri · 0 likes

my experience with phone vs mirrorless was mostly positive, but I bet the farm on it yet

Classic Monday energy

I'd pay good money to see you debate that with my boss

Funny how phone vs mirrorless comes up right when I was arguing about it with my coworker

Ha, my cat has the same opinion and zero evidence either