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I have a 10 year old webcam, a oneplus 5t, and a nice cannon eos with a few good lenses.

Aside from the phone camera, they are all useless to me.

I mountain bike, so none of those are good for capturing that, nor are they convenient or rugged enough to use as a camera midway through a run on some beautiful peak.

Just bought a flagship gopro. It essentially fills all the gaps. I can use it as a webcam, I can use it for mountain biking, I can bring it everywhere and record 4k60fps, take photos, etc.

Phone + gopro seems to be the best way to go for anyone not looking to do niche photography, like extreme macro, long exposure sky stuff, professional large prints.

Ruggedized mini cameras like gopros are a pretty big factor in killing off dslrs. There are countless professionals on youtube making high quality stuff with nothing but phones and gopros.



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