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Maybe I'm just old school, but actual proper physical glass lenses with optical zoom will always perform better than tiny lenses that fake just about everything digitally.
Eh old sensors perform pretty poorly. You end up with noise that’s hard to remove. Old Canon sensors had this terrible banding. Ultimately the image you get is math, and there are multiple ways to get the same result.
I respectfully disagree. As long as you have control over your exposure triangle, you can have far more quality control than any phone sensor.
Plus shooting in raw gives you a ton of flexibility. I'd happily take raw from a DSLR than from a phone to edit.
As a thought experiment, your DSLR sensor is 1 pixel. In this situation, regardless of glass quality, exposure, etc the sensor is the limit in this situation.
This same concept can be applied to noise. A FF sensor (24mm x 36mm) is 36x larger than a phone sensor (4mm x 6mm). If the phone sensor has better than 36x noise characteristics (not reduction, as in the technology is better so less noise is produced), it will be better in most situations. Only bokeh would be different as that’s based on incident angles, but in all other areas the phone sensor would be better.
In practice, you may have other limits such as poor glass quality and different controls, however you can have DSLR lenses that are quite bad as well. And also DSLR sensors do modernize with technology. But have you seen the original digital camera sensors? They are sooo much worse.