Picture taking and videos vs. a digital camera?

I mananged to break my Sony 3.2 Megapixel Cybershot camera. I have been pleased with it, picture abilities, short video ability.
Anyway, it may not be worth fixing.
How does the iPhones photo and video taking ability to compare to a digital camera like this?
I would LOVE an iPhone, but can't justify buying one yet due to tight business budget, but if it can do great photo and video taking compared to a camera than I may just have to get one
Thanks in advance for all input!

Hi AndreaFahy, iphone takes nice simple still shots, it lacks a flash but you should be able to get good results in normal indoor lighting as well as outdoor daytime shooting. There are NO exposure adjustments on iphone, what you see is what you get. You must hold iphone very steady when pressing the shutter button or your picture will be out of focus, there is no tripod socket on iphone. There is NO video mode on iphone.
Hope this helps, Steve.

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You should use iMovie instead of iPhoto.
And if you only have usb port and no firewire port in your camera, you must use iMovie 7 from iLife '08 that allowed tapeless camera / camcorder video file imported to your mac.
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Rozbrin wrote:
My Iphone takes pictures and video but then they do not show up on the camera roll...
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with me as it is my employers. I want to be able to
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