Mini 3 Photography quality versus Mini 2

[laurent45]

Hello,
For more than 3-4 years I have got the Mini 2.
I am thinking of upgrading to the Mini 3 (not the Mini 3 Pro).
I am doing mostly photography, and sometimes printing photos 30x40 cm (11.8 x 15.7 inch), and it is usually OK, but I feel I reached the limit... and I cannot crop.

The Mini 3 camera has a bigger aperture than Mini 2, so more light , or a bit more.
But I saw this 48 MP resolution, but I think I read it is a "artificial" higher resolution, obtained electronically from the 12 MP resolution.
So what does it mean ? will my printings be better using the 48 MP , or not as it is only electronically enhanced.
I am waiting for your feedbacks and experience as drome photographer.

Thanks in advance

 

[Felix le Chat]

Owner of a mini 3 pro. For its limited size: the camera really surprised me. I only shoot JPG+RAW and dump the JPG's to process exclusively from DNG, so I was skeptical about the '48mp' output, but once I discovered that it can save this to memory card as an ersatz RAW: I started taking it seriously and am still impressed more than 3 years later.

Another strong selling point is the physical ability to flip the camera to portrait orientation, using the whole sensor to capture the shot.