Usually take modern memory cards, at worst with an adapter
Actual focus mechanism vs. fake digital zoom
Small loss if you drop it in the swamp, get it soaked, otherwise ruin it
Almost all employ high quality gears and lenses and such
Generally take a pair of AAs. (Maybe stay off the units with proprietary batteries.)
Resolution is plenty fine for most use cases. Your pic is getting down-scaled when you share it. We’re dressing up and taking 1-year anniversary wedding pics because all we have is shit that was downgraded by being passed around.
Better and larger sensor, producing less noise, meaning less need for noise reduction post-processing that makes smartphone photographs horribly muddy. The first digital camera my family ever owned (2MP, 8x zoom, still functional 20 years later) takes better pictures than my new phone.
Sometimes snatch these for $10 at the thrift.
tl;dr: I’d buy the one pictured in a second.
At 7mp that’s pretty good.
My first one was 1.2 mp, 2 years later my phone had a 1mp. Fortunately I didn’t pay much for the camera.
Better and larger sensor, producing less noise, meaning less need for noise reduction post-processing that makes smartphone photographs horribly muddy. The first digital camera my family ever owned (2MP, 8x zoom, still functional 20 years later) takes better pictures than my new phone.