[renewiltord]

DSLRs use extensive such tricks to process the image. Enthusiast groups will show the pathological cases for the image processing that happens. Ultimately, ceci n'est pas une pipe applies to the picture. It's a representation and it is meant to evoke the scene.

[dylan604]

What DSLRs use AI or other software based tricks to perform macro photography?

[renewiltord]

Name a DSLR and it uses software based tricks to perform all photography.

[dylan604]

At the risk of feeding the trolls, no DSLR software comes close to the image manipulation of a modern phone. We know this with tools like MagicLantern that would have enabled this type of stuff.

To even equate these as being the same is being disengenious at best.