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Every problem with a camera is a 'physics' issue. But it doesn't meant that there isn't a solution.

Internal reflections are a solvable problem and other camera manufacturers - including DJI, GoPro and Samsung - have solved them.

Only Apple has the problem with dozens of green dots all over the image - one for each point light source, sometimes two. It makes the 'pro' camera completely unusable at night.
The statement is false. All cameras/lenses exhibit lens flare. Citation to prove your claim. Lens flare can be reduced but not eliminated.
 

I’ll leave this here, shows how many megapixels of actual detail we’re getting compared to a real camera

There’s no point going to 200 megapixels, no chance the lens can resolve that. The Leica M11 with a full frame sensor is only 60 megapixels, and Fujifilm’s GFX medium format cameras are 100 megapixels
 
The statement is false. All cameras/lenses exhibit lens flare. Citation to prove your claim. Lens flare can be reduced but not eliminated.

There is a difference between 'lens flare', which can be used artistically and beautifully, and the absolute hot garbage that is iPhone cameras shooting at night with point light light sources.

Apple has a specific lens flare problem, that is exclusive to iPhone, that other camera and lens manufacturers have solved, where there are several (sometimes dozens) of green lens flare dots from internal reflections. Often more than one green dot per point-light source.

The specific lens flares that are generated by iPhones make the iPhone photos (and videos especially) shot at night - with any kind of point light source (like a street lamp), completely unusable for any thing professional.

This is a solvable problem that exists only in iPhones. Other phone/camera manufacturers have solved this issue. Samsung used to have an issue with ugly purple dots and blobs, but they redesigned the cameras and changed the coatings to eliminate or reduce the problem in their flagship phones.

A higher MP camera will do nothing to eliminate or reduce this problem.
 
There is a difference between 'lens flare', which can be used artistically and beautifully, and the absolute hot garbage that is iPhone cameras shooting at night with point light light sources.

Apple has a specific lens flare problem, that is exclusive to iPhone, that other camera and lens manufacturers have solved, where there are several (sometimes dozens) of green lens flare dots from internal reflections. Often more than one green dot per point-light source.

The specific lens flares that are generated by iPhones make the iPhone photos (and videos especially) shot at night - with any kind of point light source (like a street lamp), completely unusable for any thing professional.

This is a solvable problem that exists only in iPhones. Other phone/camera manufacturers have solved this issue. Samsung used to have an issue with ugly purple dots and blobs, but they redesigned the cameras and changed the coatings to eliminate or reduce the problem in their flagship phones.

A higher MP camera will do nothing to eliminate or reduce this problem.
Okay. I do not see the problem on my 15PM and have taken enough photographs in my life to understand what “hot garbage” looks like.

If the iPhone camera isn’t for you, so be it and don’t use it. It works for me.
 
200MP cameras are very good as long as sensor size is big enough. why chinese brands are heading this way due to big sensors
 
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