have been using a suri for half a year now. Awesome device. Doesn’t do anything useless like bluetooth or “smart” features. Just brushes teeth. And that perfectly well, while being super compact and with an enormous battery capacity.

And it is not ridiculously expensive either.

The weight isn’t all that bad. I’ve been running around with it all day on vacations and wasn’t bothered by it. The size imho is more important. I paid ~1400€ used. All the cameras with interchangeable lens systems are in similar price ranges unfortunately. The more compact ones are even more expensive. There is a very compact sony one with integrated zoom lens i forgot the name of that goes for more than 2k€ The ricoh gr iv is similarly priced and has a fixed zoom lens and no EVF and in sunny daylight no evf is a no go imho. The displays on cameras are usually much darker than smartphone displays so you really need an evf.

If you want to safe a bit of money you can go for the a6400. it has a couple of compromises but isn’t all that much worse purely for photography.

But yeah cameras are expensive. But they last you much longer than smartphones and the retail price is fairly stable. There is 10 year old ones that still go for a significant chunk of the original price on the used market

i bought a used sony a6700 with a sigma 18-50mm for that very reason. Not that pocketable but small enough and i actually shoot more because i usually keep it in my hand when i am travelling. An the creative styles + white balance bias means, i barely ever manually edit the raws and i can transfer them wirelessly to my phone and sync them automatically with my immich server.

I have anothet compact ttartisan 25mm f/2.0 as a fun/more compact lens for when i want it a little more pocketable.

Probably one of the best purchases i’ve ever made.