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By low light mode on phones I assume you mean image stacking. This requires a stationary subject. Intrinsically, phones are still far behind simply because of

By low light mode on phones I assume you mean image stacking. This requires a stationary subject. Intrinsically, phones are still far behind simply because of the physics of having a tiny sensor. https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM has a comparison tool that includes both phones and DSLRs. The newest phone I found was the iPhone 11 from 2019. For comparison, I chose the Canon 40D from 2007 (4 years older than the models you list) as the oldest model with the same test scene available. It's a 2007 cropped sensor DSLR. The shot of the 40D at ISO3200 absolutely destroys the iPhone 11 at ISO2500 (try reading the bottle labels). The 50D from 2008 has a 12800 image available and it still easily beats the iPhone at 2500.

orbital-decay 5y ago
> By low light mode on phones I assume you mean image stacking. This requires a stationary subject. Which is a misconception. The entire point of stacking in smartphones is to handle lots of movement in a robust way, and it's surprisingly good at that. You can actually perform similar stacking manually for a camera, the algorithms are well known and there are applications to do just that, for example [1]. There's less benefit on a normal-sized sensor since it can perform much better with a single shot as you pointed out, but there are still valid uses for it in certain scenes where even proper cameras struggle, see [2]. [1] https://github.com/martin-marek/hdr-plus-swift https://github.com/martin-marek/hdr-plus-swift [2] https://www.timothybrooks.com/tech/hdr-plus/ https://www.timothybrooks.com/tech/hdr-plus/