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Three cameras, and the phone does the choosing: which lens actually works after dark
The zoom button isn't wired to a lens. What really decides which sensor shoots, why it can change its mind halfway through a run, and how to take the wheel.
Four pixels into one: why twelve megapixels beat fifty after dark
Your phone adds its photosites up in fours before handing you a file. What that buys you, and why full resolution at night is a poisoned gift.
Nothing up there is white: white balance for night skies on a phone
Your phone guesses the light source in a scene with no neutral surface, and guesses again every frame. How to lock it, and what colour work waits till later.
RAW or JPEG on a phone: what the software throws away
Your phone rewrites the sky before it shows it to you: noise smoothed, suspicious dots erased. What RAW hands back, and when it is actually worth it.
