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  • 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.