Ways in which dedicated cameras are better

I like to have a dedicated camera for photography; but why? One of the major reasons is the ability to adjust aperture; in phones, aperture is generally constant, set at the quickest setting. If you can adjust aperture, then you can get sharper photos, and if the lens is sharp enough, can also take multiple photos to achieve superresolution. Adjusting aperture is also important because it can allow one to create a longer exposure in bright light than what is usually possible. The user interface of smartphones is usually better than that of a camera, even though camera user interface is still great. I think that more cameras should implement touchscreen capability, since many people have been using smartphones. I like the fact that on some cameras, the controls and settings aren't like they are on smartphones, however; what I mean is that, instead of having to touch the screen and/or go into the menu system to change settings, on some cameras such settings can be adjusted using physical dials, such as on Fuji mirrorless cameras. Using physical dials can be a benefit, because settings can then be adjusted more quickly and easily. Currently, it seems that mirrorless and SLR cameras might be causing the compact camera business to shrink, but I digress. Sometimes, changing settings quickly is important, such as in photographing quickly moving subjects. SLRs and Mirrorless cameras are great, despite their relatively large size, because they have the capability to focus on fast moving subjects at quick rates, and after quickly taking consecutive photos, like frames in a video, to capture quick motion, modern cameras can achieve focus in much larger percentage of photos than a phone probably can; this is in part because of technological improvements such as Depth From Defocus (DFD), & Front End LSI. In macro photography, with a larger sensor, you can have a greater range to adjust aperture than what you could with a smaller sensor until diffraction (which is basically loss of image quality) sets in. So, it is quite possible that you could achieve larger depth of field with a Full Frame sensor than with one of the small sensors found in smartphones, for example. Unfortunately, this benefit of larger sensors has the disadvantage of having to usually use a higher light sensitivity value. However, on the other hand, a larger sensor has the ability to gather more light because of it's larger area, so the results at the same sensitivity setting, known as ISO, can be greater, although that can also depend on some factors, including what the native ISO setting is, and whether or not the given image sensor is backside-illuminated, otherwise known as a BSI sensor. Much of this information can be learned simply by scrolling and reading through the comments left in the forums on Dpreview! In fact, I think that Dpreview can teach us more about photography than perhaps any other photography website, at least that's if you get past all of the other irrelevant posts first (Topics which you don't want to learn about). Larger lenses are also a good thing for cameras, because they can produce greater image sharpness as opposed to smartphones.