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Future iPhones Could Capture 'Super-Resolution' Photos Using Optical Image Stabilization
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i guess this is nice but...
I'll still keep my DSLR, my 4k Video camera, large-format film camera, my.......
Seriously though. Smartphone cameras are not in the same league as those but they are VERY decent. They easily take the place of a P&S. and this helps so much more.
For nice things/events I use the DSLR...for everyday usage the iPhone.
I'll still keep my DSLR, my 4k Video camera, large-format film camera, my.......
Seriously though. Smartphone cameras are not in the same league as those but they are VERY decent. They easily take the place of a P&S. and this helps so much more.
For nice things/events I use the DSLR...for everyday usage the iPhone.
I never suggested that wasn't the case. In fact I mentioned today's D3 will crush today's camera phone. But OP's point was that future camera phones will never evolve to (d)SLR quality w/o a big lens to which I pointed out people use to say 4cyl engines will always be pokey, thus my comparison to today's smaller engines to larger ones of the past.
Correct. However, more quality is always good. Can't wait to see how well they do with this if it's real.
Nope, it's actually kind of the opposite. While the Nokia takes a 41MP worth of information and pairs it down to a more manageable resolution, this takes a series of tightly grouped small shots and builds a larger one out of it.
so youre claiming this is not a new invention, but is instead something older cameras had prior to 2012? keep in mind this is not merely OIS, but is composite photo-stitching done in real-time on a puny cellphone sensor & camera.
please link us to specific cameras that had this exact feature (componsite photo-stitching using OIS and onboard processor).
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composite photo-stiching to form a larger source image using OIS and onboard processors? im not familar w/ Nokia or Sony phones, can you link us to the product pages for these phones where it defines this?
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where does the patent application claim that? or are you just being obtuse, because...well, just because.
Nobody is suggesting that this will replace your DSLR. But until you can carry a DSLR in your pocket all mobile camera improvements are welcome.
And either way, Canon for life
When Apple implements fingerprint tech in iphone (not the first mobile phone with this tech) and Samsung comes out with it, every apple fanboys call Samsung a copycat. Let's see if those same people call Apple a copycat (Nokia is the first mobile phone with OIS) when they use OIS on iPhone. Double standard much?
Just read this the other day. I'll look for info on Nokia's oureview tech later. Just curious at the differences
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/19/oppo-find-7-50mp-camera/
Impressive, it took someone 6 posts to get to this incredibly stale and unnecessary comment. Thought it would be sooner.
NOTHING.. but the PR chaps will just put a new spin on it and the ifans will lap it up..
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It's not copying , its "done right!"...
It's a dedicated photography outing when I have the Nikon with me; you're correct regarding the ubiquity of the iPhone(s) presence
Mine gets 11
Seriously though, I'm not getting rid of the iPhones or iPads.
Yeah, there's that.
I'm also looking forward to seeing the results. It should be interesting. My current 5C and 5S aren't too shabby for impulse photography.
Nobody is suggesting that this will replace your DSLR. But until you can carry a DSLR in your pocket all mobile camera improvements are welcome.
And either way, Canon for life
DSLR has its uses, and that format isn't standing still either.
Nikon & Leica for me
The idea itself is not new, e.g. the Hasselblad H4D-200MS does something similar to achieve 200MP with a 50MP sensor:
Hasselblad's approach is to shift the sensor, Apple's approach seems to involve a fixed sensor but adjustable optical path.
Yes. Compared to what will be possible with future DSLR technology, or even future cellphone camera technology, your current Nikon DSLR camera will be hopelessly out of date and even camera phone users will look down their noses at you. (Google Glass users with their super advanced cameras will look at you over the top of their lenses, and iWatch users will glance at you dismissively and turn their attention back to their wrists.)
I remember when the question was whether digital cameras would ever catch up to film cameras.
Quite a few people want an all-in-one product that does everything. Unfortunately, I doubt a specific feature in an all-in-one could ever be as good as a contemporary single-function device. I see all-in-ones as a "Jack of all trades, master of none" while single function devices (i.e. dslrs) are masters of one/few. Other sayings I've heard is "Too many features pool the broth," or "If you try to eat and talk at the same time, you'll do neither very well." I'm just the type of person who thinks that all/many-in-ones may be very decent for many people, each individual function may not be as good as single-function devices.
Are you so insecure that you have to mention Samsung within 6 posts rather then discuss the actual technology mentioned in the article.
LOL. So if someone copies Apple, it's a blatant ripoff. If Apple copies someone else, it's 'done right'. Good logic.