>>2937549>Are they still making them? Didn't the compact camera market collapse?I work at an electronics store and people buy compact cameras pretty frequently.
Consider the fact that flagship smartphones usually cost north of $700 or so, whereas you can get an actually pretty good compact or bridge camera for half of that. With the bridge cameras you get an insane amount of optical zoom (albeit with very slow focusing), usually 20 or so MP as well, which is plenty for someone shooting casually. For the price of an iPhone 7+ you could actually buy a full blown D-SLR kit with a tripod, or buy something cheap and put the rest towards traveling, because there's no point to having all this shit if you can't go anywhere to take pictures.
There's people who don't go for the latest iPhone or Samsung, in fact a lot of folks stick to cheap prepaids or cheaper non-flagship androids with worse cameras.
The one saving grace of a dedicated camera is that you have more than one button and it's often less cumbersome than having to work with nothing but the back of a giant screen. Even if smartphones have pretty nice cameras, actually using those phones to take pictures can be a bit of a pain.
