> A DSLR and mobile phone camera optimize for different things and can't really be compared.

You sound exactly like the sales guy trying to explain why that Indigo workstation is “different” even though it was performing the exact same vector and matrix algebra as my gaming GPU. The. Exact. Same. Thing.

Everything else you’ve said is irrelevant to computational photography. If anything, it helps matters because there’s better raw data to work with.

The real reason is that one group had to solve these problems, the other could keep making excuses for why it was “impossible” while the problem clearly wasn’t.

And anyway, what I’m after isn’t even in-body processing! I’m happy to take the RAW images and grind them through an AI that barely fits into a 5090 and warms my room appreciably for each photo processed.