If you use a fairly recent cell phone, they often have decent-enough resolution to be able to do nice photos in a forum like this. Also, if you transfer them to a printer, you can get prints that look decent in snapshot size.
Where the "big" camera will have the advantage is if you want to print poster-size.
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