The whole idea that the iPhone 7 was dumb but now the 12 is too smart shows how poorly researched this article is. The aperture on all cell phone cameras are ti

The whole idea that the iPhone 7 was dumb but now the 12 is too smart shows how poorly researched this article is. The aperture on all cell phone cameras are tiny, so you’re running into the limits of physics as you get very few photons per pixel imaged. The noise is just very high and uneven. So all cameras use computational photography, including way before the iPhone 7, in order to achieve the results they get. You can argue that the algorithms are getting worse, but you cannot say they weren’t smart before.