I think we're getting into that stuff that I don't want to elaborate on. They would probably get cranky I have said what I've said, but that's pretty common knowledge.

If the third-party stuff has access to the raw Bayer format, they can do pretty much anything. They may not have the actual manufacturer data on lenses, but they may be able to do a lot.

Also, 50MP, lossless-compressed (or uncompressed) 16-bit-per-channel images tend to be big. It takes a lot to process them; especially if you have time constraints (like video). Remember that these devices have their own, low-power processors, and they need to handle the data. If we wrote host software to provide matching processing, we needed to mimic what the device firmware did. You don't necessarily have that issue, with third-party pipelines, as no one expects them to match.

Thanks for sharing what you could. I wasn't really thinking about video; the storage requirements to work with raw video are indeed big.