[alphabettsy]

Phone cameras are very good but owing much of it to the DSP and software. An iPhone camera will not produce iPhone quality photos without the chipset and OS.

[aendruk]

That still leaves the original question of why dedicated cameras aren’t doing this.

[sydthrowaway]

Probably cause Big Tech stole all the computer vision and DSP folks

[formerly_proven]

The question of GP wasn't that, but why you can't buy "iPhone image processing pipeline to UVC/USB".

[aendruk]

I think we agree but you don’t understand me.

[dekhn]

there are cameras that do this; there are many UVC USB3 webcams with phone-grade sensors (medium quality).

[aendruk]

“This” refers to the contribution of software processing described above, i.e. explicitly not the matter of sensor quality.

[dekhn]

oh, that's for economic reasons. The industrial and desktop consumer computer vision markets are orders of magnitude smaller and their development cycle times orders of magnitude longer.

I looked into this a while ago- trying to use gcam technology for scientific imaging- when I worked at Google, and there was zero interest from those teams. They were 100% focused on next-gen camera tech (and it showed- that was the period when phones got unbelievably good at taking high quality images using computational photography).