“Unaltered originals of individual exposures on smartphones can be fairly unflattering before they are combined with other exposures and extensively massaged.”

Anyone checking an unaltered original for reference wants to see a fairly unprocessed, single exposure image—

— but smartphone manufacturers prefer to combine exposures and do extensive processing before anyone can view the image.

What's the issue?

It can be assumed that the unaltered original from a smartphone would not have any non-optical bokeh or non-optical perspective correction.

But a sticking point will likely be whether the smartphone maker would incorporate more than one exposure in the VUO. (Many smartphone users would be surprised at the reduced image quality of a single exposure.)

In other words, the more useful the image is for verifying “what the camera lens saw,” the less flattering it will be to the smartphone manufacturer.

What’s the difference between “unmanipulated” and “unaltered” and “undoctored”?