Originally posted by reh321 Actually, it doesn't "do the lot". At the moment, the top three issues I can think of are
There are tricks that help phones appear to have better camera then they actually are:
- cameras on smartphones use wide angle lenses, combined with a fast aperture, allows for slow shutter speeds, helping a lot to pull decent images out of the tiny sensors
- viewing displays are small, have utra-high resolution and are boosted for contrast and saturation, making images pop more even with poor native image quality
- images are over-processed, very aggressive noise reduction and boosted contrast, making images look good at small size, however when printed A3 or displayed on a monitor, processing artifacts become very visible
Many users are happy with their phones as long as they look at images on phone displays, don't zoom in, take photos in good light and don't take pictures of moving subjects.
Whenever those conditions aren't met, smartphones are still very poor substitutes to ILCs.