The new iPhone SE is surprisingly good for videos. And photos. Why? The power in the new A-processor, and also the new computational photography advancements in the processor.

Therefore, in photography, or at least phone cameras, think less about the camera, lens, and hardware itself, think more about the processor, and the computational photography abilities.

For example, Google pixel actually has a superior camera to the iPhone pro, because of all the great computational photography that Google has, especially considering that Google recruits the best computational, computer vision scientist from UC Berkeley and the Bay Area. For example, my friend Todd Hata, now only shoots videos for his YouTube channel and TikTok on his Google pixel pro.