Interested in your thoughts. Not trying to upset anyone, just create a comparison and discussion.
I decided to compare my iPhone 14 Pro to my R5 today. To be fair, there are infinite things that I can do with my R5 which the iPhone cannot possibly do... such as shooting sports, birds in flight, breaching whales, using artificial light.
I tried my best to make two closely identical photos. I used the same lighting, tripod and distance from camera, and timed release. I zoomed my 24-70mm lens to about 26mm to match the Apple. And I set the Apple camera to "Apple ProRAW", 48 MP, which produced much larger files than the Canon cRAW: The Apple photos were 74 MB each, vs 22 MB for the cRAW's. The iPhone produces a DNG in this mode. I brought the photos into Lightroom and applied "Auto" editing, then boosted the shadows to make the items on the lower shelf more visible. I tried to match the two as closely as possible. Also note that this 48 MP mode only works with the 1x, rear-facing lens.
Oddly, Lightroom exported the iPhone photo to a much smaller size, even though identical settings were used. I think this is a result of the AI processing performed inside the phone, which is exceptionally good, but overall the image has a lot more smoothing. This is especially noticeable if you look at the woodgrain along the right side of the two photos; it has completely vanished in the iPhone photo.
Anyway, please be the judge. If you think I should set this test up differently and re-shoot it, let me know and I'll give it another try.
EOS R5 with 24-70 f/2.8 lens
Apple iPhone 14 Pro with Apple ProRAW 48 MP resolution