I've had trouble getting out of the local optimum with my mirrorless. For shots that rely on the glass, so to speak, it can't be compared with a phone at all: t

I've had trouble getting out of the local optimum with my mirrorless. For shots that rely on the glass, so to speak, it can't be compared with a phone at all: the shots aren't better, they don't exist on the phone to begin with. But for the kind of picture my phone can take, it frequently does a better job. I can tell going through my collection when I used the mirrorless immediately, because the result is subjectively different, but we're comparing quality equipment with good defaults with very small (nonetheless excellent) equipment with metric boatloads of machine learning applied. Getting past this involves an immediate and very steep learning curve which I've only intellectually engaged with; the practice of adjusting the basic parameters consistently gives me worse results, and I haven't put in the time to get past that.