FStoppers The Rise and Fall of the Point-and-Shoot Camera

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There's a 10-year-old Canon PowerShot in your parents' junk drawer. It was once a $300 piece of high technology, a marvel of miniaturized optics and digital sensors that could fit in a shirt pocket. Today, the phone in your hand takes better photos in worse lighting without you thinking about it. This is the story of how the smartphone killed the most popular camera on Earth.

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