Is a camera better than an iphone for photos?

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From Your first camera: How to split the budget: Spend roughly as much on lenses as on the body, or more. A modest body with a great lens takes better pictures than a flagship body with a cheap zoom. A sensible first kit: 1. The body with its kit zoom, for everything. 2. A cheap fast prime, a 50mm f/1.8 or its APS-C equivalent, for people and low light. See lenses. 3. A spare battery and a decent memory ...

From Travel: My picks by type: - The one-camera answer: an APS-C mirrorless body with a travel zoom in the 18-135mm or 16-80mm range (roughly 27-200mm or 24-120mm in full-frame terms). Small, flexible, good in most light. - The pocket answer: a 1-inch compact with a 24-200mm-equivalent zoom. It fits in a jacket, and the pictures are clearly better than a phone's when you zoom. - The fixed-lens answer: a compact with a large sensor and ...

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