[StringyBob]

It’s complicated is an understatement ;)

I assume most people have no visibility of the effort of hundreds of engineers who work on behalf of the big smartphone companies tuning for what happens in the image pipeline between camera/raw Bayer data to what your app receives.

There is a reason the quality of pictures in phones has got so good - lots of tuning, quite a bit of magic, as well as software and hardware co-optimization.