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Is there a top-tier phone model on the market that doesn't enhance photos in some way using AI? Not too long ago, there was an HN discussion on AI artifacts on iPhone photos thet are readily apparent when viewed from a large/hi-res display, despite looking "better" than non-enhanced pictures on the phone display.

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The problem here is that Samsung are marketing it as "look how amazing our 100x zoom is!" when in fact it's not 100x zoom, its 30x digital zoom and the results are misleading. The iPhone issue was pointing out how comparatively bad the iPhone processing is...

My partner took a photo of food not long ago, with her iPhone 14. After doing photography for years I told her a photo shouldn't look like that. Why? Because she took it with back lighting and the food looked just perfectly exposed with texture and eveything, just like food photos from magazines.

I mean that's exactly the point of phone cameras, each year phone companies are pushing the edge to get the best on board image processing to do more and more with the limited camera hardware options, it would be naive to expect commercial level control (composing) on the camera and expect it to sell to masses.

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