>>3996615Most digital photos are fake sharpened so people are used to that artificial unsharp masked look, those images have zero sharpening so they will appear softer. Here's the same image with some USM applied and saved at a higher quality JPEG setting so there are less blocky artifacts and better per-pixel detail.
Lenses on decent phones are actually surprisingly good. The sensors are what's holding things back most at the moment. Well, at least after shit software sabotaging the images is overlooked. When judging the hardware instead of software settings, even the best phones have noisy sensors even when in the best light. Another issue is that most phones don't even support long exposures so you can't even feed them extra light to try and reduce noise. Like some phones literally cannot even take a 10 second exposure, regardless of the camera app. They are unable to capture certain scenes as a result. On top of this they'll always be noisier at their best ISO and exposure compared to entry level prosumer cameras at mid settings. In practice though the real issue with phone lenses is that normies are constantly taking their phone out of their pockets, or for girls, their bras, and their lenses are constantly coated in a layer of grease from their skin or tit sweat that they never bother to clean off before snapping photos. A good but dirty lens is a hundred times worse than an average but clean lens.
Any enthusiasts actually using phones properly for legit video production or photography will always find that lens sharpness is rarely an issue when compared to the noisy sensors, and if anything the slow/unreliable autofocus compared to entry level cameras is a much larger concern than the sharpness.
