As we all know, DSLRs and mirrorless cameras bring capabilities to the playing field that smartphones simply don’t, primarily their advantages with optics, and therefore the depth of field, and of course the file sizes they can produce.
The recent launch of Apple’s iPhone 14, which has a whopping 48MP sensor, has heralded a new dawn in terms of image size. Some of the early photos coming from this camera are astounding; the amount of detail visible in the 48MP ProRAW is astonishing, with file sizes over 90MB in some cases.
Although the algorithms and computational aspects of smartphone photography are always improving the quality of the photos, they are
still limited by their lenses most of all.
I am an avid landscape photographer and I love smartphone photography, but I can’t see the smartphone superseding its big cousins
anytime soon. They both have their place in any photographer’s quiver.