http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Apple%20iPhone%20XS%20Max,Canon%20EOS%201Ds%20Mark%20III http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Apple%20iPh

http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Apple%20iPhone%20XS%20Max,Canon%20EOS%201Ds%20Mark%20III http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Apple%20iPhone... This site uses user-submitted raw files to calculate the dynamic range. I'm not sure whether this is only a single iPhone shot or not, and it's an Xs, not an 11. (Incidentally, that's data from my personal 1Ds3.) If you're looking at DxOmark reviews, I'm fairly certain that they do not review ILCs and smartphones on the same scale, and I take every number they give with a huge grain of salt. Re: computational techniques: You certaily could get infinite dynamic range, and perhaps the iPhone 11 does better than my Pixel (I hear it does multiple exposure durations instead of repeating one exposure duration), but at least with my Pixel there's tons of shot noise everywhere, even in the midtones and highlights, because the full well capacity on the dinky sensors is accordingly tiny. You just rarely scrutinize a cell phone photo alongside a large-sensor camera photo so you gloss over where the heavy sharpening plus noise reduction has smeared the fine detail to paste. The processing has a lot to overcome, after all: the small lens-sensor combinations are running at the limits of diffraction and thus are extremely soft if viewed at the raw data level. Sharpening it heavily just to level the playing field with a large sensor (which you can safely do because a lot of the blur is just diffraction) enhances the noise a ton, beyond what the dynamic range numbers derived from the raws would suggest.