Yeah, software is a big part of this and can hopefully improve it. But it's also a huge undertaking. I strongly suspect that computational photograhy improvemen

Yeah, software is a big part of this and can hopefully improve it. But it's also a huge undertaking. I strongly suspect that computational photograhy improvements make up a majority of Apple, Google, and Samsung's smartphone research spending. It's the main thing that drives sales of their most expensive phones. There's a gigantic amount of closed source research / development to catch up with. But also there's some important hardware features that just aren't possible to make up for in software (e.g. my 3x zoom camera module is really important to me).