>>4116619>It is, you cannot shoot several genres without a specific focal rangeYes but those specialized genres also requires something significantly better than a tiny sensor compact camera. You are not going to sell professional wildlife, sports or portrait photos snapped on a G7x and for all intents and purposes a phone camera will be much handier and portable for those use cases in an amateur scenario. The only real benefit to them is like, "Oh look, a birb. Lemme snap shot of birb. Zoom-zoom, snap, mmm, nice grainy birb." A fixed focal length on an actual capable camera like a Ricoh makes infinitely more sense on virtually all other scenarios that doesn't include zoom-zooming on a birb or a house across the lake that your fat ass is too lazy to walk to or whatever, because it is just as portable but produces tack sharp photos that can even be passed off as professional photography.
>Depends on the multiple, a great lens will outperform 3 shitty lenses but 5 decent enough lenses will outperform one great lens. No. If you take 5 photos with the G7x's 24-100 mm and put them side to side with one Ricoh 40 mm photo, I can almost guarantee that you'll be much happier with that one great photo than all the mid-tier G7x photos combined.
>you don't know shit about cameras No you just need to update yourself on the technological advancements and stop being a zoomer-boomer. I'm not talking about crappy on-camera AI (though they certainly does quite a bit to enhance image quality as well), but post processing from Lightroom and say Topaz' AI suite. These AI algoritms does so much to reduce noise and enhance sharpness and resolution that a processed phone camera photo can rival even some APS-c and full format kit lenses. They will literally take a shit image and magically add crisp detail where there is none and most of the time you wont be able to tell the difference. If you haven't tried it yet you should.
