I have a pixel 6 with the same kind of 50 mega pixel sensor that the new iphone has (might even be the same sensor?). It's good. I also have a Fuji x-t30, which

I have a pixel 6 with the same kind of 50 mega pixel sensor that the new iphone has (might even be the same sensor?). It's good. I also have a Fuji x-t30, which is a 26 megapixel camera from a few years ago. The Fuji is what I grab if I want to take a nice photo. The 12.5 megapixel photos that Apple and Google take by combining pixels in a 4:1 ratio from the 50 mega pixel sensor are alright and the resulting raw files that I can get from my phone are quite OK. But the Fuji raw files are way nicer. Just way more detail and dynamic range. People confuse the post processing that Apple and Google do in the phone with the quality of the camera. It's impressive what they do and the quality of the raw images is actually not as bad as it used to be on most phones. But it's still a noisy mess compared to any decent pro-sumer camera of the last ten years or so. You don't need the same trickery to make those photos look good. It's amazing what Apple and Google can do with the relatively limited form factor, sensor, lenses, etc. that phones have but when it comes to sensors, bigger is simply better and bigger requires more distance between the lens and the sensor. It's not the number of pixels that counts but their size and noise level. My Fuji is fine as an entry level camera but the real deal here is full frame sensors and expensive lenses. It makes all the difference. Some of the lenses on the market today are so good that it's pointless owning them unless you can pair them with a very high end camera and sensor. Phone lenses are comparatively not really worth talking about. Owning such a lens almost automatically means you probably want to have full creative control. So, typical owners of such cameras and lenses are not looking for point and click cameras but are deeply into controlling all aspects of their photography. Most manufacturers have put dslr development on halt or at least on the back-burner. The high end stuff is almost exclusively mirror less at this point.