Agreed that would be the largest factor, besides DoF. Although, I've been surprised by iPhone 8 or greater noise levels. In the article's video, you wouldn't no

Agreed that would be the largest factor, besides DoF. Although, I've been surprised by iPhone 8 or greater noise levels. In the article's video, you wouldn't notice the noise at that resolution if taken with a modern iPhone. Also, the shadows are mainly in the background, so you could retouch it easily with additional manual blurring. For Huawei, I have no idea, but I assume it's not much worse.