Lumia 1020 and iPhone 5s get compared with DSLRs, Nokia's camera deemed years ahead of the iPhone  

When the renowned Dpreview makes a phone camera comparison with their favorite DSLRs, one ought to listen. When this comparison involves Nokia Lumia 1020 with its 41 MP sensor, and one of the most widely used cameras out there - the one on the iPhone 5s - one ought to listen more. The DSLRs in question included some heavyweights out there, such as Canon EOS 10D, Canon EOS 20D, Canon EOS 30D, Canon EOS 40D, Nikon D800 and the Nikon FM2 film camera. 

The iPhone's camera was praised for its ease of use with nearly no manual controls and incredibly fast shot-to-shot times, which allowed the comparison authors to take ten shots per second in burst mode. When it comes to image quality in good lighting, however, the folks from Dpreview lauded the tiny but powerful lens that Nokia created along with Zeiss, which allows soaking in so much detail from the center to the edge of the frame, almost as much as the Nikon D800 was capable of, and that one is much larger.  

 

The whole piece is worth reading, but here is the final verdict, which tells you how far smartphone cameras have advanced in the last year or two: