The best camera is the one you have with you (but that's not the whole story)

The saying goes: the best camera is the one you have with you. Chase Jarvis popularised it, Apple built an entire marketing campaign around it, and in practice it’s hard to argue with. The phone in your pocket has made more genuinely good photographs than most dedicated cameras will ever see. And yet. There is something that happens when I pick up a large camera — a smallish Fuji, a heavy Leica — that doesn’t happen when I reach for my phone. Something slows down. Not just the process, but me.