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With the advances in technology I don't think having a fancy camera and lenses is as important as it used to be. Focusing on composition and knowing how to work with what you have is always going to be more important, when you focus on the technology too much I think you can end up being a camera collector rather than a photographer.
I do love my camera though, it has an amazing zoom (and stabalisation so I don't need a tripod) and the viewfinder & adjustable screen make it possible to take photos when light reflection and angles are a bit difficult. It's getting a bit old for a camera these days though! It's a Canon Powershot 50x, which is a compact camera not a DSLR but it has worked really well for me - especially as it is small enough to fit in my shoulder bag when I travel. Most day to day stuff I just grab my phone or tablet though.
There are a few advantages that a dedicated camera has over a phone camera that are unlikely to go away any time soon. They’re so much faster to go from being off, to capturing the image. They can take in so much more light, making them viable for faster exposures in lower light situations. That also means (because a lot of it is achieved by means of wider aperture) more of that oh-so-beautiful bokeh that just can’t quite be simulated by phones’ digital manipulation. And the ability to plug in a really long lens means closeups of sportspeople and wildlife are hard to beat.
But computational photography is making it so that any other types of photos are very, very good on modern phones.