By the way, for non-professionals, the photos taken with smartphone cameras are just as valuable as those taken with Kodak Brownies, Polaroids, Kodak 126 Instamatic and Kodak pocket 110 cameras for the past 60 years. I guess everyone should burn all those treasured family photos as they are just noisy analog photos that were disposable when you made them.

The quote about the best camera is spot on. I don't always want to lug around my Canon DSLR bodies, lenses and associated stuff. However, I do always have my smartphone with me. When something catches my eye, do I pass because I'm not carrying "professional" gear or do I use the camera I have with me and capture that fleeting slice of time? Today's smartphone cameras are as good as the Canon rangefinder cameras + Tri-X film that were used to document that Korean and Viet Nam wars. Granted I don't use Instagram or any filters. However, many of the "inexpensive" DSLRs touted in the comments as "real" cameras have many of the same filters. So I guess a crappy amateur photo shot with a "real" DSLR with crappy filters is better than an Instagram smartphone photo with crappy filters? That's plain camera snobbery.