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I think they are unfairly comparing apples with pears.
If you can fill the frame with the subject using an iPhone camera and view it on a computer screen, you can get a good reproduction of what you saw. Attempt to crop or sectionally enlarge and the image quality drops off rapidly.
There are novel supposed manual control features like fstop ‘selection’…..wrong. It’s a software blur filter to approximate control of the depth of focus. Trouble is, it tends to mess up the selection areas, causing edge effects of incorrect focus. Clever but no cigar!
Working with small sensors, wide apertures and fast shutter speeds phones achieve a clever balancing act of subject/camera stability, light gathering and focus depth. But try to intervene and take real control for specific photographic results and you need something more.
It’s all about being ‘fit for purpose’.
I agree. My son used to ask me to print a photo off his phone to A4, IQ c**p. He eventually learned and got a proper camera.
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