>>4502531>Samsung originally had 108MP sensors that would bin down to 27MP and details held up pretty wellFucking no. Not at all. You don't understand this shit anon.
48MP = 12MP
108MP = 12MP
You can't "bin" 108MP to 27MP. These 108MP sensors are simply extra photosites behind a much lower res filter. The filter determines the resolution.
A 24MP full frame bayer camera only has 6000 red, 12000 green, and 6000 blue samples. A 24MP sensor can't capture signal with 24MP detail. In theory you can maybe hope for 1/4 of the advertised resolution. (nyquist, on both axis) but in reality 4x res isn't enough in all cases. This is where aliasing and moire come from.
Smartphones with meme sensors are their 100% full resolution but are fundamentally gimped because their color filter is at a much lower resolution. Instead of red green and blue photosites, you have CHUNKS of red green and blue at either 4x (48MP) or 9x (108MP) resulting in an effectively binned equivalent to 12MP bayer. This 12MP bayer is already far from an ideal. These phones are binning to accomplish what is unacceptable resolution that is miles behind what film was capable of.
Honest 16MP phone cameras are alright, limited by their lens with vignetting and corner sharpness loss but are genuinely okay hardware.
Anything 48MP or 108MP is a red flag reliant on binning bullshit to deliver AI sloppified falsifified fake photos. If the hardware and firmware is configured to actually properly bin the 3x3 chunks into binned 1x1 binned bayer, then that's probably a good 12MP phone sensor but they all try to falsify data and deliver garbage at inflated resolutions that are 100% not possible or backed by anything but slop filtering.
A 108MP phone sensor (in theory alone assuming a PERFECT lens) can only deliver maybe a good 6MP or 3MP depending on subject. A genuinely good 3MP is good for most things.
Binning is good, phone scam sensors are not.
