I look at it a bit directly. I shoot with a canon d6 mark 2 dslr regularly on trips up north and hiking and have spent way too much money on this stuff. While the dslr with a 200-400mm lens is superior for stuff like polar bears (yellowish white on usually low contrast backgrounds) at a safe distance, my iPhone 16 can in a single shot get a great family photo or wide angle nature shot thanks to whatever optics and processing magic it has. For similar I’d have to expend a lot of effort with the dslr and raw editing after.