Basically every midrange or budget smartphone has atleast a 48 MP camera, while most of the flagships have about 13 MP camera. Then why are photos from the flagships better? Is it because of image processing or quality of lens or something else? And which specifications to look out for when buying a low cost phone?
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Phones don’t actually have good cameras… well they do in a sense. What the cameras lack in quality and properties to capture the image well due to physical limitations of the camera. As in, no matter hoe expensive your phone is, it can not change the physics of light. So to get around this the phone manufacturers invest lot of time and effort to post processing the images. GPUs came to phones so they could be used to process camera images. All it does is try to compensate for the lack of physical objective and apparatus. This is why all sorts of “AI” which are actually just algorithms are used to basically approximate the actual picture.
Big DSLRs and other big cameras can focus on the actual storing of the information the sensor receives.
Basically phone’s camera’s pixels are poor quality and done with approximation, while biggers cameras have higher quality pixels which represent the informat what the sensor received.
There is a difference between, “this was probably the information I hot” and “this was the information I got”.
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