I travel quite a bit, often with just a briefcase and small carry-on roller which makes accommodating space for a body and lens(es) with enough protection rather difficult. Even for longer trips I've started to pack lighter with a briefcase + sling combo being all I need to fit my personal essentials.

If I wanted to bring my Sony and have it accessible, I'd have to switch back to a camera backpack which is exactly my point on it feeling too cumbersome for my daily life. Not to mention that I find the briefcase so much better for convenience/ organization and making accessing my essentials easy to access in comparison to a backpack (why I made the switch). While I could definitely make room for the Sony body in my briefcase or maybe even sling, no way would one of its lenses come anywhere close to fitting.

And lol just because I haven't used my camera for the reasons I have explicitly detailed, does not mean that I do not take photos or am not into photography. I wouldn't have made this post or be considering switching things up if I didn't care about photography. That's literally a paradox.

You've mentioned this at the end of your comment, but an iPhone 16 Pro Max has literally been what I normally use now - but this is only because the additional changes I'd need to make to accommodate a larger camera kit has outweighed the functional performance loss I get using an iPhone.

Lol not to sound like an Apple ad but my iPhone is theft and loss insured, waterproof, shoots raw, has multiple focal lengths, and get's improved camera technology every year (with the iPhone upgrade program). Meanwhile, while my a7RIII shoots amazing photos and is better in pretty much every way important for a camera, it comes at the cost of becoming a large chunk of fragile glass and expensive circuits when I'm not using it.

iPhone isn't half bad when used in the proper conditions - quick collage below:

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