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I don't take many photos these days, having a family etc has pretty much killed off travel for a few years.So many years ago I bought my first digital camera, a 3.2MP thing from casio that was pretty good in it's day, for casual snaps. I bought it in Japan and took a few dozen photos with it, then when we came home I put it in the drawer and forgot about it.The next holiday was 2 years later and the camera was very dated, so I went out and bought a 10MP version of the same thing. Went on holiday, came up, transferred pics to PC, put camera in draw.Now, my phone has a 5MP camera, and that's good enough for my needs. I am f**king thrilled that I won't have to buy a camera and use it once, ever again.When you count the cameras, and a few hundred megs of SD memory cards, I probably spent $1500 on those two cameras that only ever got one use each. My wife's phone can fit 64 GIGS of RAM and it only costs a few hundred to max that out too.The singularity is coming.

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Hiding in bushes taking pictures of bushes.

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Your camera doesn't matter <a class="user" href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm&lt;/a&gt;

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@bassmanright, so that's precisely why i have a road bike with a nice pooshy squishy gel seat. i know it adds weight, but i can deal with 1 additional kg :)

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you're right. MP is just the amount of pixels. That doesn't mean the pixels are good. A better camera takes better pictures. A lot of cellphones actually create pixels that aren't there which make the image larger but not necessarily better. Start playing with a good professional camera and most people will notice the difference.

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